Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Class division in knowledge goes deeper than any other class division.

An educated proletariat is a constant source of disturbance and danger to any nation.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

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.