Quotes about Class

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

Each was anxious to play the part fate had allotted to him, and each was dimly conscious of an inability to remain confined in it, and painfully aware that their secret problems would have been unintelligible to most men of their own class and kind.

Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.