Timothy Noah Quotes

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Class still matters in Britain today.

We live in a very unequal society.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

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

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.