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“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

“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

“While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.”

Men Stories Wealth Class Poverty Study Middle Percent Myth Riches Executives Steel Rags Railroads Upper Class Horatio Textiles Rags To Riches

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.”

Source: Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings

“The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.”

Giving Heart Country Able Class Mass Prejudice Errors Educated Reform Handful Idolatry Upper Class

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

“In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.”

People Ifs Believe Energy Consciousness Class Middle Conversation Karma Middle Class Housewife Slums Upper Class Mumbai Come Back To Me

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.”

People Knows May Moments Common Class Know How Middle Crisis Former Latter Middle Class Behaviour Formal Brutes Upper Class Fastidious Uncouth

Author:Cesare Pavese

“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”

Want Looks Whole Rooms Class Feet Particular Lows Males Very Good Manners Good Man Shells Shocked Beam Scottish Reactionaries Good Manners Banging Upper Class Male Chauvinist

Author:Jilly Cooper

“Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.”

Class Evolution Died Charming Upper Class

Author:Germaine Greer

“Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.”

“Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.”

Mean Born Wealth Class Royalty Upper Class

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.”

Class Democracy Upper Class Connecticut True Democracy

Book:The official preppy handbook

Source: The official preppy handbook

“I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.”

Way Art Stills Sex Class Entertainment Old Fashioned Prerogative Upper Class Scott Fitzgerald

Book:Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present

Source: Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present

“Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.”

Culture Class Western Conservative Consuming Western Culture Upper Class Istanbul Neighbourhoods

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.”

People Reason Past Poor Christianity Enemy Class Too Much Members Despair Negative Meat Poison Skepticism Frozen Lambs Beef Upper Class Scepticism Chilled Canterbury

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.”

“A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.”

Should Turns Loses Wealth Moral Class Goes On Charity Welfare Nasty Incentives Provision Upper Class Blackmail Handouts

Book:Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Source: Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

“If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.”

Ifs Looks Class Logic Upper Class

Author:Lady Violet

“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”

Men Three Class Novel Middle Mass Trials Revolutionary Middle Class Bad Man Upper Class Tractors

Book:The beauties and furies

Source: The beauties and furies

“The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.”

Ifs Should School Form Order Speak Process Interest Class Boys Teacher Succeed Accounts Mathematics Psychological Abstract Psychics Presentation Systematic Diplomats Upper Class

Author:Felix Klein

“There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.”

Wealth Existence Class Royal Highways Upper Class

Book:The Works of L.E. Landon in Two Volumes

Source: The Works of L.E. Landon in Two Volumes

“Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.”

People Want Has Beens Use Grows Known Class Mark Luxury Ease Accustomed Upper Class Insufficiency

Book:The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes

“We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.”

Class Deny Luxury Upper Class Internationalism

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.”

Kind Used Certain Turns Cities Class Novel Rich Information New York Tvs West Lifestyle Curious New York City Turn-on City Life Upper Class Nebraska

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.”

People Thinking Sometimes Class Middle Losing Mouths Backgrounds Broke Middle Class Working Class Upper Class Upper Middle Class

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.”

Stills Home Humor Hands Funny Beautiful Class Prove England Upper Class Upper Hand

Author:Noel Coward

“Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.”

Social Consciousness Class Groups Members Administration Indian Ministers Cabinets Ambassadors Upper Class Ethnic Groups Competencies Bolivia Social Consciousness

Author:Evo Morales

“My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.”

School Born Class Taught Dad My Dad Be Confident Upper Class Glasgow

Author:Rankin

“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

“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.”

Different Bigs Animal Rooms Class Pieces Grew Fit Grew Up Heavy Piano Expensive Furniture Living Room Upper Class Different Animals Rocking Out

Author:Ben Folds

“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.”

Thinking Looks Interesting Class Position Dull Working Class Mobility Upper Class

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.”

People Men Way Kind Important Young Used Girl Born Class Sitting Moved London Used To Be Young Man Acquire Couches Chelsea Upper Class

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones”

Long Class Modern Officials Priests Royalty Representing Egyptian Upper Class Courtiers

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“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

“To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.”

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.”

People Stories White Class Middle Library Triumph Middle Class Norm Suspicious Mislead Great Success Upper Class

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.”

People Thinking Home Order Sides Class Middle Broken Raised Track Excuse Neighborhood Addict Upper Class Broken Homes

Author:Jason Peter

“There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.”

Whole Class Privilege Radio Enjoyed Upper Class

Author:Geoff Rickly

“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

“If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.”

Ifs Ideas Talking Class No Idea Accents Working Class Stereotype Upper Class

Author:Michael Caine

“People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.”

People Body Differences Class Treats Indifferent Upper Class

Author:Lynne Tillman

“Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they go to bed. There's very little private time with the children in the early years. Actually, there's much more private time with the children in the 20s.”

Knows Years Children Littles Night Class Bed Traditional Servant Good Night Upper Class Nannies

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.”

People Wells Mean Matter Hate Social Class Hell Franklin Stylish Upper Class Social Class Hate Him

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.”

Stills Play Today Class Roles Modern Century Doctors Hats Toms Uncles 20th Century Upper Class Modern Day Plantations Reverends Handkerchiefs Uncle Tom Top Hats

Author:Malcolm X

“The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.”

People Giving Poor Class New York India France Bourgeois Upper Class Trendy French Movies

Author:Gaspar Noe

“Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.”

People Sometimes Class Cinema Upper Class Barbers

Author:Gaspar Noe

“Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.”

People Mean Class Boys Rich Middle Granted Inheritance Upper Class Nepotism

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.”

Past Literature Nations Class Middle Future Middle Class Upper Class Upper Middle Class

Author:Ayn Rand

“I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.”

People Film Class British Feds Fed Up Upper Class British Film

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

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