Class Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

“For when a man is poor, he is no longer noble or of any repute.”

“The series is a microcosm of the class system.”

“A bourgeois anarchist is a contradiction in terms.”

“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.”

“Our class="highlight">inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”

“What have you done to deserve so many advantages? You took the trouble of being born, and nothing more.”

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

“The political class="highlight">State, ever the organ of the master class, is an executive committee of the master class.”

“The essence of snobbery is to prize what is scarce and exclusive.”

“Militarism is the most pronounced expression of the class character of the bourgeois state.”

“In the Communist state, the ruling class is not the bourgeoisie, but a new class of bureaucrats.”

“The English can't stand a cockney accent, but they love a cockney character.”

“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.”

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

“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”