Best Class Distinction Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off his head immediately, and stick it on a pike!' Gennosuke could hardly believe his ears. Such an insult to Irako Seigen was unwarranted. It was pride. For Gennosuke, Irako Seigen was pride itself. Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke! It is the way of the samurai to take the head of the defeated enemy on the battleground. Do not hesitate! If you are a samurai, you must carry out the duty of a samurai!' Samurai... Saegusa, Lord of Izu, continued shouting, but Gennosuke did not attend. That word 'samurai' alone reverberated through his body. If one aims at the juncture between the base of the skull and the spine, decapitation is not that difficult, but Gennosuke could muster no more strength than a baby. He grew pale and trembled with the strain. He could only hack with his sword as if he were sawing wood. He felt nauseated, as if his own cells one after another were being annihilated. But this... Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga: 'I approve.' Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke, for this splendid action you have received words of thanks from our lord. As a sign of his exceptional approval, you shall be given employment at Sunpu Castle. This great debt will by no means be forgotten. From this day forward you must offer your life to our lord!' Prostrating himself, Gennosuke vomited.”

Source: シグルイ 15

“Familia: these are some of the exotic items Jill’s shopping brings into the house. Her cooking tastes to him of things he never had: candlelight, saltwater, health fads, wealth, class. Jill’s family had a servant, and it takes her some nights to understand that dirtied dishes do not clear and clean themselves by magic, but have to be carried and washed.”

Class Class Distinction

Book:Rabbit Redux

Source: Rabbit Redux

“Funny how we talk about our roots when our people have been here for generations." "Interesting, too," Anna said, "how we're not really divided according to our nationalities, but by how much or how little money we have. Most of the differences are acquired, they depend on what money can buy you.”

Money Roots Disparity Class Distinction

Book:Whose Names Are Unknown

Source: Whose Names Are Unknown

“The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.”

Real President Term Class Economy Activity Office Criminals Distinction Executives 80s Robbery Shallowness Class Distinction Bank Robbery

Author:Martha Plimpton

“In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.”

Looks Kids Three Class Poverty Overcoming Blue Despite Crush Distinction Hotel Maids Bikinis Surfer Hawaiians Class Distinction

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”

Men Way Mean Art Use Spiritual Law Class Minutes Art Is Function Aim Chaos Bounds Likes Distinction Sublime Proletariat Bourgeoisie Class Distinction

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“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.”

Earth Beauty Class Lonely Majority Silent Distinction Desirable Abolish Class Distinction

Author:John Mortimer

“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.”

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.”

Country America Common Class Notion Odd Distinction Class Distinction

Book:A Writer's Notebook

Source: A Writer's Notebook

“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.”

Stills Happens Age Time Money Race Class Aging Democratic Distinction Birthday Abandoned Hymns Democratic Society Class Distinction

Author:W. H. Auden

“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.”

Want Class Morning Paper Mark Distinction Papers Engels Class Distinction

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.”

Men Should Has Beens Made Different Chance Results Class Degrees Increase Aim Distinction Acquisition Class Distinction

Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.”

School Class Particular High School Prison Distinction Hierarchy Navigate Clique Class Distinction

Author:Laura Prepon

“James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.”

“I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.”

Thinking Together Stuff Community Class Struggle Drama Distinction Addresses Timeless Class Distinction

Author:Ira Sachs

“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

Artist Class Picks Concerned Distinction Class Distinction

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“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.”

Real Problem Money Class Criminals Distinction Ethical Amusing Class Distinction

Author:Orson Welles

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”

Lasts Culture Force Social Justice Class Diversity Social Justice Analysis Distinction Separating Social Class Sticks And Stones Class Distinction

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“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.”

Knows Littles Art Helping Women Class Drawing Distinction Unnecessary Rope Commoners Class Distinction

Book:My Brilliant Career

Source: My Brilliant Career

“Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.”

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.”

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.”

Political Social Class Conviction Discrimination Distinction Genocide Sanctions Anti Discrimination Class Distinction

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

Picks Class Distinction

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

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

Want Made America Culture Class Ready Clothes Blue Distinction Jeans American Culture Wipe Coca Cola Blue Jeans Class Distinction

Author:Leslie Fiedler