Roger Vadim Quotes

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

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

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

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

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

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.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

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

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

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

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

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

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

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious