Class Quotes

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Al Capone)
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. View quote
Karl Marx
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. View quote
Robert Benchley
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. View quote
Henry James
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. (Margaret Mead)
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. View quote
Harriet Martineau
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable – and this is why we are the enemies of the State. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class. View quote
Mikheil Saakashvili
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. View quote
Mark Twain
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. View quote
Voltaire
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. (Robert Shea)
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. View quote
Raymond Chandler
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. View quote
Lionel Trilling