Quotes about Class

As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in our world, is the penitential class par excellence, continuing the role of the clergy under the Old Regime. We have to call its members what they are: officials of original sin.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.