Whittaker Chambers Quotes

As in most country constituencies, the majority of those of wealth or large property are on the Conservative side.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

You may be the most liberal, Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.

Class is material consumed.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.