When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
Classes Quotes
It’s amazing to me that only populists are ever accused of class warfare. Talk about losing a grip on reality. I’ll tell you what class warfare is: When the Gingrich Republicans mandate that the IRS spend more of its resources auditing working-class people who get the Earned Income Tax Credit than it does auditing millionaires […]
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The first thing the intellect does with any object is too class it along with something else… Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would […]
Rank, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers.
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.
We have democratized elitism in this country. There is no longer a clear pecking order, with the Vanderbilts and the Biddles and the Roosevelts at the top and everybody else down below. Everybody gets to be an aristocrat now. And the number of social structures is infinite. You can be an outlaw-biker aristocrat, a corporate-real-estate […]
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
