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“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.”

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

Thinking America Differences Class Class Differences

Author:Terry Gross

“Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.”

Differences Class England Theatre Cease Class Differences

Author:Anthony Burgess

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

Lasts Force Differences Justice Class Regard Contrary Resorts Class Differences

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“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.”

States Reality Differences United Silence Class United States Educational Intense Setting Settings Class Differences

Book:Teaching To Transgress

Source: Teaching To Transgress

“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.”

Differences Decision Class Economic Paper Perception Red Majority Distinction Bags Leather Paper Bags Class Differences

Author:David L. Bazelon

“I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."”

Thinking Jobs Differences Class Careers Involved Class Differences

Author:Bill Walsh

“I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.”

Life Is Differences Poor Quality Class Health Injustice Life Is Short Class Differences

Book:Class and health

Source: Class and health