Class Superiority Quotes

They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.

The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting wild boar in Silesia, mine were princes of the earth.

Tell it to Sweeney—The Stuyvesants don’t care—much.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.