Quotes about Class

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.