David L. Bazelon Quotes

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

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

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

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

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

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

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.