Social Class Quotes
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Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life. — Marge Piercy
class was established for the rest of your life. — Marge Piercy
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.
— Josephine Herbst
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
Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality.
— Elly Griffiths
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
— Friedrich Engels
P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty
— Ivan Illich
It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.
— Bell Hooks
I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.
— James Hillman
The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a heart.
— E.P. Shelky
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
you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella
— Philip Rahv
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.
— Jonathan Michel Metzl
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
— James S. Coleman
From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.
— Alephonsion Deng
Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.
— Robert Steven Gottfried
In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.
— Kimberly Derting
For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
— Judith Martin
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
— Gore Vidal
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
— Christopher Hitchens
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
— Faye Wattleton
A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society.
— Henry Johnson Jr
Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution
— Owen H. Lewis
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
— Roy Jenkins
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
— Rich Sommer
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
— Peter Drucker
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
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw
Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.
— Emily James Smith Putnam
At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.
— Eric Jay Beck
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
— Christina Stead
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
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
— Edmund White
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.
— Michael Marmot
It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.
— Ernest Bramah
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
— Ernest Mandel
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
— Albert Einstein
In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.
— Paul Smith
Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.
— Neal Stephenson
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.
— Noam Chomsky
Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?
— Charlotte Bronte