“ Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. Christopher Hitchens
“ 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… Charles Moore
“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ 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. Betty Smith
“ HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. George Bernard Shaw
“ Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? Charlotte Bronte
“ From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. Alephonsion Deng
“ 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. William Maxwell
“ This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We don't recognize this lazy nobility we now have, we reject our present class hiera… Thomas Mann
“ The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather… George Orwell
“ The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be. M.R.C. Kasasian
“ But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters! Hope Mirrlees
“ Like many who'd married in the war, my parents were finding it hard to survive the peace. This wasn't because they had discovered that they didn't love each other once their life together wasn't spice… Lorna Sage
“ Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars. Fiston Mwanza Mujila
