Charles Dickens Quotes

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

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

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

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

We once had a society stratified by bloodlines, in which the Protestant Establishment was in one class, immigrants were in another and African-Americans were in another. Now we live in a society stratified by education. In many ways this system is more fair, but as the information economy matures, we are learning it comes with its own brutal barriers to opportunity and ascent.

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

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.

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

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

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.