Quotes about Class

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

Each was anxious to play the part fate had allotted to him, and each was dimly conscious of an inability to remain confined in it, and painfully aware that their secret problems would have been unintelligible to most men of their own class and kind.

Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.

Here was no retrospective pretense of an opulent past, such as the other Invaders were given to parading before the bland but undeceived subject race. The Spraggs had been plain people and had not yet learned to be ashamed of it.

You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. That is true enough in a sense, but your lungs are thinking about the air if you are not. And so it is with your rich people: they may not be thinking of money, but they're breathing it all the while; take them into another element and see how they squirm and gasp!

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn