Class Status Quotes

In the West, it's just a given that art exists in this high-class place. But in Japan, there's no high class. The minute you come out, you're low class.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would qualify my children for the label 'disadvantaged.'

I belong to a middle class family from Bhopal. My father was fearless.

We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better off kin. Even elevated class status and superior financial standing cannot ward off the effects and consequences of racism.

Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living.

I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation's experience of an even more important class - the kind in which they learn. And that's one thing we simply can't afford.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.