“My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.” ParentClassMiddlePositionBackgroundsCombinationOddMiddle ClassPrivilegedWorking ClassUpbringing Author:Denise Mina
“Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.” WellsMightInterestAttitudeClassShareMediaPositionPerceptionGainsExpectedAspirationConcentrationElitesOwnershipPrivilegedAssociatesReflectingCommentators Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.” IfsCountryHappensWould BeLostClassPositionInternationalReactionsCommunismErasRepublicThroatCapitalistOppressedWorking ClassSmashing Author:Joseph Stalin
“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.” KnowsFeelsWritingBookIdeasEnoughStoriesCareImaginationClassPositionAppreciationLimitationI CareDefectsMy ImaginationLower Class Author:Louis Auchincloss
“[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.” PeopleFeelsCountryGovernmentRunningPresidentClassPositionColorKeysPoliceEritrea Author:Nipsey Hussle
“One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.” PurposeClassPlansEffectsPositionEconomicsTraditionalWelfareOrthodoxPrivilegedExplaining Author:Joan Robinson
“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.” IfsMenMayProblemActorsSocialBlackWhiteRaceClassStagePositionEvolutionWeightCastsProductionsExecutivesMixing Author:Howard Schultz
“our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.” HumansMayIdeasGovernmentHuman BeingsClassSharePositionRepublicanDiscriminationPerpetualConsistentlyExcludedFlatteredSubordination Author:Lydia M. Child
“Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.” PeopleRaceEnemyClassPositionFinancialDuesLocation Author:Kanye West
“There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.” DifferentHomeHouseClassNicePositionOddWealthyRealisingLooking BackWorking ClassTerrace Author:Mark Haddon
“Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.” LooksIdeasHardLinesAcceptingClassPositionHappeningsPicksThirdsGoing AwayThis DayPalestinianClass Status Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.” FirstsOpinionClassPositionCurrentsSurfaceSwimSwimming Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.” ThinkingLooksInterestingClassPositionDullWorking ClassMobilityUpper Class Author:Jarvis Cocker
“Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to love playing with him. You could give him the ball in any position, he would take one touch and you would know exactly what the next move would be. [ . . . ] He was magical, pure class.” KnowsGivingWould BeMovingUsedNextClassPlayerPositionPureBallsAll TimeFavouriteUsed To LoveNext Move Author:Paul Gascoigne
“For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansSelfWholeWould BeEarthWinningInterestingNumbersMoralClassPlansPositionGoes OnOughtWeaknessDignityDown AndManagersUnlimitedCommonplaceFlatteringSpiritedReformersPhilanthropist Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
“The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.” LawClassSeeingPositionRevolutionPeriodsDeterminedRevolutionaryCulmination Author:Leon Trotsky