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“I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.”

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Author:Caitlin Moran

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.”

Knows Reason Class Insanity Darling Dukes Upper Class

Book:Her Royal Spyness

Source: Her Royal Spyness

“I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.”

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Author:Jack D. Forbes

“Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.”

Today Social Class Taste Members Criticism Entertainment Consumers Goods Considering Fast Food Upper Class Lower Class Plentiful

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?”

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Author:Mary McCarthy

“People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.”

Desire Girl Class Minutes Twenties Drinking Bunch Paris Dozen Up And Down Peasants Champagne Upper Class Gallons Delinquents Galloping Loafing

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass”

Order Class Economy Economics Labor Fruit Acquire Upper Class Economic Inequality

Author:August Strindberg

“Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.”

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Author:Michael Parenti

“But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.”

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Author:Elmer Eric Schattschneider

“The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these contradictions. It is not the instrument of government of the dominant groups in order to gain the consent and exercise hegemony over the subaltern classes. It is the expression of subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government and who have an interest in knowing all truths, even the unpleasant ones, and in avoiding the impossible deceptions of the upper class, and even more their own.”

“Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.”

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.”

Faces England Asking Dinner Insulting Refrain Upper Class Old Money

Author:Margaret Halsey

“Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.”

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Author:Carl I. Hagen

“There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.”

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Book:Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent of the cases that occur in middle- or upper-class families, usually associated with home renovations. People are sanding paint, removing banisters, cleaning up windowsills, and they don't realize that they're spewing lead dust around in the house. And then the kids get it.”

People Stills Home Kids House Realizing Class Cases Middle Percent Paint Dust Urban Cleaning Housing Upper Class Cleaning Up Renovation

Author:Deirdre Imus

“In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.”

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Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.”

“White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.”

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Author:Holly Near

“Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king.”

“I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.”

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Author:Francois Gautier

“You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.”

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Author:Kanye West

“I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.”

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Author:Christopher Eccleston

“I grew up upper-class. Private school, my dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

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Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.”

Self Enough Asks Late Towns Dukes Upper Class Self Deprecating Old Money

Author:A. N. Wilson

“How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?”

Ifs Knows Morning Servant Upper Class Pull Ups Old Money

Author:James M. Barrie

“Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.”

Ifs House Fine Photograph Piano Royal Upper Class Old Money

Author:Nicholas Haslam

“Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.”

Class Dog Luxury Abstraction Upper Class Guard Dogs

Author:Jeff Koons

“The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”

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Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.”

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Author:Charles Dickens

“The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.”

May Moments Used Nations Class Style Pages Defeat Newspapers Used To Be Replaced Sections Upper Class Decisive Moments

Author:Joseph Epstein

“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”

Writing Whole Lying Values Turns Social Existence Compassion Moral Vision Class Middle Pity Middle Class Feminine Honour Sympathy Spheres Centre Humanitarianism Confined Upper Class

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.”

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Author:Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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