Class Differences Quotes

#1. The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

David L. Bazelon

#2. Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Anthony Burgess

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

Albert Einstein

#4. Class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

Richard G. Wilkinson

#5. I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

Bill Walsh

#6. [Some] Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

Leon Dash

#7. And understand: class differences will not save you.

H. Rap Brown

#8. A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Terry Gross

#9. We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.

Fuminori Nakamura

#10. Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

Bell Hooks

#11. These moments of shared vulnerability are what make me believe that we are equals. That what Ian said before is true - underneath money, fame, class differences, we all bleed the same color. We all hurt the same. We all need, hate, love, cry, want.

Jen Frederick

#12. Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

Dov Davidoff

#13. I don't think I write differently when I'm writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

Aaron Sorkin

#14. Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

Albert Allen Bartlett

#16. There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

Rita Mae Brown

#17. People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.

Lynne Tillman

#18. Despite all differences of class or ideology, mentally, emotionally, we all have the same basic nature.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

Bernie Sanders

#20. Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.

Loraine Hutchins

#21. There is no difference in our souls ... That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves
our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all humans.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#22. The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#23. The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

Lionel Trilling

#24. What provokes me worst of all are our fateful bourgeois distinctions of rank. Of course I know as well as anyone that differences of class are necessary, and that they work greatly to my own advantage: but I wish they would not place obstacles in my way when I might enjoy a little pleasure ...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#25. The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Robert Baden-Powell

#26. Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.

Demetri Martin

#27. The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

Derek Clayton

#28. Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.

Stephen V Monsma

#29. The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Pope Francis

#30. Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

Ken Adam