Top Social Class Quotes

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in...

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensu...

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always...

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.