Class Quotes

“Behaviour which would be considered insanity in a tradesman is looked on as mild eccentricity in a lord.”

“A man who can be a hero to his valet must have a great deal of the valet in him.”

“Intellectuals are a dominated fraction of the dominant class.”

“I'm from a working-class background, and I've been able to make a good living, but I'm not a millionaire.”

“The great fight is now on between the idle holders of idle capital and the struggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country.”

“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”

“Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”

“The tourist is a great leveler. From the point of view of a tourist, there are no classes.”

“What is most exceptional about the Americans is their relative lack of class consciousness.”

“What do the simple folk do?”

“The State is the organised authority of the ruling class.”

“The police are not 'the community'. They are a body of men set apart to enforce the laws of the ruling class.”

“The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community.”

“There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.”

“For God's sake, stop that cringing. You're a member of the class="highlight">ruling class. Act like it.”

“The State is not the representative of the interests of the whole of society, but only of the interests of the ruling classes.”

“We could manage to survive without money, but we could not survive without the miners.”

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.”

“Art and cultural consumption are predisposed, consciously and deliberately or not, to fulfill a social function of legitimating social differences.”

“We are not pacifists. We are militants of the class struggle.”