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“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?”

Wealth Poor Poverty Rich Imperialism Upper Class Lower Class Marie Antoinette Let Them Eat Cake

Author:M.B. Dallocchio

“Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble making both ends meet, but those who lived below the intersection didn't bother to conceal it.”

Class Middle Class Lower Class

Book:All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories

Source: All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories

“As the daughter of a train driver and a nurse who grew up constantly strapped for cash, I'm fascinated by- and a little bit suspicious of- people who have made loads of money. To me they're like another species altogether, a breed of sleek and dangerous cats.”

Money Rich Cash Wedding Lower Class The Guest List

Book:The Guest List

Source: The Guest List

“I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies they find on poverty ground.”

Middle Class Upper Class Lower Class Penny Earned Is A Penny Saved Penny Pinchers Value Of A Penny

Author:Anthony Liccione

“Sleep is rest for the rich, but laziness for the poor.”

Luxury Rich And Poor Class Struggle Imbalance Social Commentary Disparity Lower Class Classes Contrasts Resting

Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“There are universes within the same universe, and there is a universe where a few wake up to live, and another where a great many wake up to survive.”

Wake Up Rich And Poor Survivors Social Commentary Disparity Rat Race Lower Class Waking Up Contrasts Universes

Book:These Words Burn Like Fire

Source: These Words Burn Like Fire

“Lower castes and other oppressed groups have less access to basic amenities and education and fewer prospects for social progress than their upper-caste counterparts.”

Caste Nepal Caste System Lower Class Upper

Book:Why Nepal Fails

Source: Why Nepal Fails

“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”) Yet, old people know that this is not true!”

Influence Social Justice Unity Division Upper Class Informative Lower Class Social Equality Class Inequality Nationalization

Book:Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

Source: Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”

Socialism Sovereignty Monopoly Non Fiction Upper Class Ussr Lower Class Social Equality Political Principles Planned Capitalism

Book:Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

Source: Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“People like you and I would have long been crushed by this world. We are saved because we believed in something.”

Believers Lower Class Underdogs Underclass Unprivileged

Book:The Thugs & a Courtesan

Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan

“The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call “self-help.”

Justice Violence Self Help Legal Lower Class Socioeconomic

Book:The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.”

Knows States United Class United States Middle Prosperity China Middle Class Lower Class

Author:Arthur Laffer

“I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.”

Should Children Said Sometimes Problem Language Class Society Educated Norm Ideological Brazil Portuguese Lower Class

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”

Thinking Men Differences Class Records Expression Observation Perceive Latter Worthwhile Nevertheless Facility Lower Class

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”

Wealth Class Middle Inequality Middle Class Consumerism Overconsumption Upper Class Lower Class Upper Middle Class

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.”

Culture Natural Justice Class Middle Effects Circumstances Diversity Social Justice Inequality Middle Class Upper Class Lower Class

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.”

“When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.”

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths.”

Stills Growth Natural Class Middle Objects Taste Aesthetic Leisure Supplements Lower Class Aesthetic Beauty

Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.”

Form Class Innovation Characteristics Phenomenon Vulgar Conservatism Upper Class Lower Class

Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class

“The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.”

Thinking Mind Humans Two Whole Humanity Class Support Design Higher Species Improvement Former Appropriate Latter Executives Mutual Interaction Limbs Human Species Lower Class

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.”

Should Said Different War Country Reason Order Sides Class Willing Republican Democrat Warfare Shrinks Concessions Upper Class Class Warfare Lower Class

Author:Howard Zinn

“I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.”

Knows Feels Writing Book Ideas Enough Stories Care Imagination Class Position Appreciation Limitation I Care Defects My Imagination Lower Class

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.”

“Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.”

Giving Facts Running Bits Class History Humour Becoming Army Mere Tone Officers Warfare Lower Class Sergeants

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.”

Class Higher Constant Ennui Scourge Lower Class

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.”

Source: Aphorisms and reflections

“I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.”

Class Achievement Rose Backgrounds Risen Lower Class Foreground

Author:Marvin L. Cohen

“I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.”

White Class Skins Lower Class White Skin

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.”

World Real Class Citizens Monsters Zombie Lower Class

Author:George A. Romero

“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”

“All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.”

“When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.”

“If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the worst jobs and the lowest paid jobs. Once you have a system like that, then the most likely people to be victims of that are people of color.”

People Ifs Jobs Class Economic Worst Color Paid Victim Pool Lowest Unemployed Economic Systems Lower Class

Author:Howard Zinn

“A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.”

Class Crime Activity England Definitions Broads Insulting Upper Class Lower Class

Author:David Frost

“Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.”

Knows Poor Class Idiot Industrious Lower Class

Author:Arthur Young

“The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.”

Given Class Trouble Tragedy Upper Class Lower Class

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.”

Ifs Knows Needs Faces Felt Known Class Boys Worst Calling Female Profession Instance Spokes Over It Occupation Apologizing Shameful Daytime Cushions Lower Class Humdrum

Author:Quentin Crisp

“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”

People Facts Faces Fighting Black Water White Poor Talking Class Fire Mass Racism Capitalism Socialism Brown Yellow Solidarity Lower Class

Author:Fred Hampton

“War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.”

Men Has Beens War Young Dies Class Rich Middle Property Young Man Middle Class Old Man Lower Class

Author:George Carlin

“As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.”

Thinking Persons Dream Would Be Kids Jobs Stuff Parent Class Raised Finished Great Job Lower Class

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.”

“Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.”

Class Middle Faster Welfare Middle Class Lower Class

Author:James Cook

“The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.”

Want Desire Wish Class Middle Middle Class Upper Class Lower Class

Author:George Orwell

“It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.”

Jobs President Class Republican Clinton Entertaining Bowls Forgiven Scandal Super Bowl Better Jobs Incumbents Ammunition Lower Class

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.”

“If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational opportunity and no access to jobs and is resentful and furiously angry, we can have it - that's what we've been willing to pay for so far.”

Ifs Want Two Jobs Opportunity Pay Class Willing Angry Educational Access Welfare Unemployed Crippled Resentful Lower Class

Author:Robert Hass

“Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.”

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Author:Andrew Breitbart

“Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.”

People Long Courses Felt Class Theory England Management Structure Good Life Better Life Abusive Lower Class Downtrodden

Author:Damian Lewis

“I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.”

Government Law Found Liberty Class Doubt Aspect Assuming Property Misery Favors No Doubt Lower Class

Author:James Madison