Quotes About Class Stratification

#1. 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.

Dorothy Allison

#2. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

Walter Rodney

#3. The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Guillaume Apollinaire

#4. This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Marc Morial

#5. People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.

Jim Davidson

#6. You were right about Kastor,' Damen said.
It was all he said.

C.S. Pacat

#7. She was just being nice. I fucking love nice. Two points to Scout.

Kim Holden

#8. We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

Anthony Crosland

#9. I felt horribly obvious. I wished I were invisible to myself- that I could see the illusion so that I could trust it

Stephenie Meyer

#10. Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

Henry Rollins

#11. Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

Elton John

#13. My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sigmund Freud

#14. A people ... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

George Washington

#15. The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Charles Murray