Class Values Quotes

Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Middle-class Americans have added an Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not judge.

Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead.

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is Finnish middle-class parenting, or it is Slovak middle-class parenting.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.