Quotes About Class Distinction

#1. There was a vividly clear class distinction between tech guys and finance guys. The finance guys saw the tech guys as faceless help and were unable to think of them as anything else.

Michael Lewis

#2. No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

John Mortimer

#3. I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.

Margaret Thatcher

#4. Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you ... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you ... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.

Miles Franklin

#5. ...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed.

Curtis W. Jackson

#6. There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Leslie Fiedler

#7. Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Orson Welles

#8. Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night

Gloria Steinem

#9. I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

L.P. Hartley

#10. We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war - it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction.

Thomas Perez

#11. I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

Margot Robbie

#12. Finally, it became perfectly obvious. A finish line marks a stopping point. Once we stop, we must start over, and starting over is harder than continuing.

Gretchen Rubin

#13. When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.

Oscar Romero

#14. Unfortunately, natural language often makes a clear distinction between member and class difficult.

Paul Watzlawick

#15. When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

Confucius

#16. Believing that Edward's men were at a safe distance in Worcester, Simon's men were unprepared for attack. They did not realize that Edward and Gloucester had spies among them, including a female transvestite called Margoth.

Dan Jones

#17. This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.

Nancy Isenberg

#18. We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. The peace of great books be for you,
Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages,
Bleach of the light of years held in leather.

Carl Sandburg

#20. A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Susanna Clarke

#21. I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Agnes Varda

#22. I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

Neil Peart

#23. Tain't no use in you cryin' ... But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

Zora Neale Hurston

#24. Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#25. 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

#26. In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

Confucius

#27. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Joyce Brothers