Sade Adu Quotes

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

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

No country can exist without a ruling class. The governing class in a America is a rank that is for sale.

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

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

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

God Almightie in his most holy and wise providence hath soe disposed the Condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich some poore, some highe and eminent in power and dignitie; others meane and in subjeccion.