Agnes Repplier Quotes

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.