Quotes about Class Loyalty

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

Anthony Trollope

It is out of nature that any man should think it good that his own order should be repressed, curtailed, and deprived of its power. If we go among cab-drivers or letter-carriers, among butlers or gamekeepers, among tailors or butchers, among farmers or grazers, among doctors or attorneys, we shall find in each set of men a conviction that the welfare of the community depends upon the firmness with which they, — especially they, — hold their own.

Communist International

The professional revolutionist … gives his whole life to the fight for the interests of his class. A professional revolutionist is ready to go wherever and whenever the Party decides to send him.

George Herbert

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

Hugh H. Brackenridge

The common people are more disposed to trust one of their own class [in political office] than those who may efect to be superior.

John L. Lewis

It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.

In 1937 there were major automobile and steel strikes. President Roosevelt castigated both sides of the dispute:

John Maynard Keynes

I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

John Bates Clark

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

Mike Loades

Chivalry only worked with men of the same class.

Chivalry was a set of rules that regulated the behavior of knights especially as to their behavior in battle. It was the Medieval equivalent of the Geneva Convention. At the time knights fought against knights and peasants fought against peasants. After time the fighting was mixed. Previously, if a knight was subdued by other knights, he would surrender and promise to fight any more and that would be honored. But when a small group of peasants brought down a knight in armor, he could not surrender. He had probably killed other lightly armored peasants who were friends, and the peasants did not trust the knights. So typically, the peasants just killed the fallen knight. Social class determined the concepts of honor, fairness, trust, and chivalry came to an end.

Kate Morton

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

Marriner Eccles

[When FDR was considering appointing Eccles, there was a great deal of opposition. Many Democrats opposed the nomination as Eccles had been a banker and was a Republican. Many Republicans saw him as a 'traitor to his class.' The President shared the information on the formidable opposition but told Eccles he 'didn't give a damn.' Well, Mr. President, if you don't give a damn, I don't see why I should.

Samantha Fox

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

Marriner Eccles

I find some pleasure in noting that if I was a traitor to my class, I earned this distinction long before Franklin Roosevelt was called one.

Eccles had been a wealthy Republican banker before masterminding much of the New Deal economic policies. He was pilloried by many of his fellow wealthy businessmen and financiers.

Class Loyalty Quotes