Class Quotes
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.
Aristotle
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Auden, W.H.
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
Bell, Clive
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Cicero
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
de Beauvoir, Simone
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
Ebner von Eschenbach, Marie
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Shakespeare, William
True nobility is exempt from fear.