Class System Quotes

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — Gerald Brenan

Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one's children? — Lois Tyson

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

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. — Andy Hargreaves

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all. — Allan G. Johnson

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system. — Kit Harington

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. — Bob Taft

A class system is something you use to discriminate someone who looks like you — Reginald D. Hunter

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. — Anthony M. Platt

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth. — F. Sionil Jose

All men are born free: just not for long. — John Le Carre

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines. — Tom Paulin

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another ... Inequality undermines democracy. — George Packer

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system. — Kevin Kline

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi. — Arvind Kejriwal

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. — George Orwell

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene. — Kevin Ayers

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. — Julian Fellowes

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people. — Lea Thompson

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system. — Bernie Sanders

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. — P. J. O'Rourke

I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists. — William Monahan

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. — Clive James

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. — Gloria Steinem

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England. — Jilly Cooper

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. — Brian Kernighan

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans. — Prince Philip

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. — Robert De Niro

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. — Debra Wilson

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system. — Seamus Heaney