Best Social Classes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.”

“Personally, I would be ashamed to be rich and have precious and expensive goods only to show to the other people that I have more worth than them when in some parts of the world there are people who suffer. No one has more worth than anyone. Everyone can be worthy if he has conditions in his life that enable him to reclaim his values. Worth lies in culture, not in appearance and possession. Besides, every person has his own mission in this world and everyone is valuable.”

Wealth Poverty Society Shame Luck Equality Lifestyle Worth Hierarchy Social Classes

Author:Maria Karvouni

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.”

Wealth Poverty Economics Employment Dependence Idleness Social Classes

Author:Ivan Illich

“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”

“We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor.”

Wealth Poverty Condescension Social Classes

Book:Black Like Me

Source: Black Like Me

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

“The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”

“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.”

Children Work Wealth Poor Money Class Poverty Rich Employment Parents Holiday Wealthy Employers City Employees Social Class Class War Classes Social Classes City Of Gold

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.”

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

Work Wealth Poor Money Class Poverty Rich Employment Holiday Wealthy Employers City Employees Social Class Class War Classes Social Classes City Of Gold

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Pig owes her much more than she could ever pay back. It had felt much less burdensome to feel like she would always be the one to so generously give.”

Friendship Wealth Social Classes

Book:Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Source: Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political.”

Art Music Drama Taste Social Classes

Book:Distinction

Source: Distinction

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.”

“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease of moving upwards. What's less discussed is how easy it is to go down. I think that's the direction that we're all heading in. And I think that the downward fall is gonna be very fast. Not just for us as individuals, but the whole preppy class. Just look around. Take those of our fathers who grew up very well off. Maybe their careers started out well enough but just as their contemporaries really began to accomplish things, they started to quit, or rising above office politics, or refusing to compete and risk open failure. Or not doing the humdrum part of the job. Or only doing the humdrum part. Or gradually spending more and more time on something more interesting — conservation, or the arts — where even if they were total failures no one would know it.”

Class Ambition Decline Social Class Social Mobility Social Classes Careerism Downward Mobility Downwardly Mobile

Book:Metropolitan: A Novella and Three Stories

Source: Metropolitan: A Novella and Three Stories

“Leaders and disciples, queens and subjects, preachers and pupils - all these are a sign of a sectarian society, all these are a sign of a sick society. No queen, no subject - no leader, no disciple - in love all are one, one is all.”

Class Oneness Humanist Advaita One Humanity Nondualism Nondual Philosophy Social Status Social Classes

Book:Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”

People Life Lessons Friendship Doors Society Friends Benefits Loyalty Hypocrisy Exploitation Selection Avoidance Classification Social Classes Social Ladder Social Gaps

Book:Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Nor could she talk as she did. But why wish to resemble her? Why? She despised Mrs. Dalloway from the bottom of her heart. She was not serious. She was not good. Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Yet Doris Kilman had been overcome. She had, as a matter of fact, very nearly burst into tears when Clarissa Dalloway laughed at her.”

Self Esteem Social Classes

Book:Mrs. Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.”

Death King Dining Polonius Social Classes

Author:William Shakespeare

“This planet has never been the home of the human race, it has always been the home of the rich and privileged, while the rest of humanity slave their butt off, barely scraping by on hand-me-downs and leftovers.”

Civilization Working Class Human History Economic Disparity Social Status Luxurious Lifestyle Social Classes Socialist Revolution

Book:Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not a question of what this or that proletarian, or even the whole proletariat, at the moment regards as its aim. It is a question of what the proletariat is, and what, in accordance with this being, it will historically be compelled to do.”

Proletariat Social Classes

Book:The holy family

Source: The holy family

“If you were not born with a silver spoon, take any spoon, and coat it with silver.”

Silver Rich And Poor Humble Beginnings Social Classes The Poor Spoon Silver Spoon Taking A Chance Embrace Opportunities Earn It

Book:Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Wherever autocratic power vanished at an early date—as in the Netherlands and later in England—and the protective interest receded into the background, they swiftly discovered that trade must be free—“free to the nethermost recesses of hell.”

England Imperialism Free Trade Netherlands Protectionism Social Classes Mercantalism

Author:Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. Vulgar we must consider those also who buy from wholesale merchants to retail immediately; for they would get no profits without a great deal of downright lying; and verily, there is no action that is meaner than misrepresentation. And all mechanics are engaged in vulgar trades; for no workshop can have anything liberal about it. Least respectable of all are those trades which cater for sensual pleasures.”

Employment Wage Slavery Social Classes Occupations Respectibility

Book:On Duties

Source: On Duties

“There are many histories of North America. The experiences of successive waves of immigrants are distinct, as are—to a large degree—the histories of the different classes compromising the immigrant waves. The histories of the various peoples native to the continent are also quite distinct within themselves. The story of each of these groups holds a rightful claim to its own integrity, to its own place and fullness of meaning within the whole. To deny this is to distort.”

History Immigrants North America Social Classes Native Peoples

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Juice is a poor man’s dessert.”

Poor Poverty Desert Juice Social Classes

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The conventional way of understanding taste, according to Distinction, is to view it as a capacity for aesthetic judgments in areas such as music, art, and literature. Though rarely made explicit, it is well understood that taste can be found only among the elite, and that the lower classes lack it. Bourdieu argues that it is imperative to break with this concept of taste and replace it with one that is sociological in nature. In order to do so, Bourdieu expands the concept of taste from including only "aesthetic consumption" to including "ordinary consumption," that is, the consumption of clothing, furniture, and food ([1979] 1986:100). He also extends the concept of taste to all social classes, and shows that what constitutes "good taste" is very much part of the struggle for domination in society.”

Taste Social Classes Economic Sociology Consumer Study

Book:Principles of Economic Sociology

Source: Principles of Economic Sociology

“As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.”

Social Classes Economic Sociology Class Analysis

Book:Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry

Source: Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry

“— Livet är värt precis så mycket, som vi vet med oss själva, att vi kan göra av värde i det, inte vad andra möjligen förmår uppskatta. Känslan av gemensamhet ligger kanske inte så väl till för oss människor, ifall vi inte någon gång är sjuka eller i nöd, men vi måste kunna lita på varann, uppåt som nedåt, även om uppåt och nedåt nog kommer att finnas i alla fall ...” (Sid. 421)”

Purpose Of Life Social Classes Subjective Truth 1930s Stockholm Trust In Others

Book:Kungsgatan

Source: Kungsgatan

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem