Quotes about Stratification

There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

So long as a society remains economically stratified, the challenge of reconciling lifelong monogamy with human nature will be large. Incentives and disincentives (moral and/or legal) may be necessary.

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.