John Wayne Quotes

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

An educated proletariat is a constant source of disturbance and danger to any nation.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

My job is to raise issues relating to class in Ireland.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

Any organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.