Every time a superior person who has position invades the rights and liberties and the dignity of an inferior person, he degrades himself, he retards and debases his own manhood when he does it.
Classes Quotes
Our middle classes, who are comfortable and irresponsible at other people’s expense… are neither ashamed of that condition nor even conscious of it.
Class is a communist concept. It groups people in bundles, and sets them against one another.
She is nether fish nor fowl.
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.
The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but is an inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you’re so clever and classless and free, But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see, A working class hero is something to be.
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth. (Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000)
Out of their constitutional optimism, and because a class struggle is an abhorred and dangerous thing, the great American people are unanimous in asserting that there is no class struggle. And by “American people” is meant the recognized and authoritative mouth-pieces of the American people, which are the press, the pulpit, and the university. The […]
