Veronica Roth Quotes

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Distinction in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

There seems to be an idea abroad in this land as well as in others, that a certain class of people are for the purpose of producing servants for another class of people, and that this servant-producing class has no right to give their children an education that is calculated to elevate them above the position of their parents. We are not in sympathy with this idea.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs;

The fight is over two fundamentally different ideas about the nature of America. On one side are those who believe that that every hardworking person should be able to rise. On the other are those who believe that wealthy white men should always rule over a permanent class of workers.

Meritocracy is a system of segregation.

Class still matters in Britain today.

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.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

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

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

It has often been said, that there is but one rank of men in America… we have no artificial distinctions of men into noblemen and commoners among us, but it ought to be remarked, that superior degrees of industry and capacity, and above all, commerce, have introduced inequality of property among us, and these have introduced natural distinctions of rank in Pennsylvania, as certain and general as the artificial distinctions of men in Europe. This will ever be the case while commerce exists in this country.