Quotes About Class Structure

#1. I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Daniel Radcliffe

#3. In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

Will Cotton

#4. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

Bell Hooks

#5. You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

Whittaker Chambers

#6. The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.

Walter Lippmann

#7. Schooling perpetuates inequality by reproducing the class structure in every new generation.

Simon John

#8. It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

Julian Ovenden

#9. You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Mitch Landrieu

#10. There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

Sade Adu

#11. First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Jon Lovitz

#12. I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Hanna Rosin

#13. our Army, (U. S.), would adopt the systematic methods of any of our large manufacturing concerns, they could either cut off half the amount of money they are now expending or use that much additional for practical training

Herbert W. McBride

#14. 'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.

Lynda Barry

#15. There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

Jennifer Ehle

#16. 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

#17. What does Arsenal mean? It means class. The structure of the Club, everything has a classy feel about it. It isn't always about success, there is more than that and this is what makes it a cut above the rest.

Charlie Nicholas

#18. Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.

Plato

#19. She stuffed the goodies into her hidden running belt, jogged out of the park, and went shopping for duct tape, a razor blade, paper clips, and another disposable phone.

Janet Evanovich

#20. If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Samuel Johnson

#21. The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

Jean Ziegler

#22. Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.

Jack Dangermond

#23. Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Bella Abzug

#24. We owe our fellow citizens something better than an institutional
structure that allows their fates to depend so deeply on the brute
luck of class origin.

Debra Satz

#25. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

George Orwell

#26. If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

David Sedaris

#27. Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we've known them.

Howard Rheingold

#28. Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

John Frusciante