1,743 Quotes About Class

There is little you can do about the annoying speech mannerisms of others, but there is a lot you can do about your own.

Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much.

I propose that very high altitude exposure to the sea level adapted human be added to the list of class 2A probably carcinogens known to cause cancer in humans.

The history of the transformation of myth into religion (ideology) is not separable from the history of the constitution of a corps of specialized producers of religious rites and discourses, i.e. the progress of the division of religious labour, which is itself a dimension of the progress of the division of social labour, and hence the division into classes.

I've just begin to realize that the capacity to be interested is a luxury, you know? It gets handed down like property.

Brevity makes us fall in class and gravity makes us fall in mass

Women are thus being allowed to enter the professions at precisely the time when these professions are being devalued and high-flying men are going elsewhere

The prison system fails at protecting communities from crime. It fails terribly at rehabilitating people. It's obscenely expensive - as the rapper and social critic, Akala, has pointed out, 'It costs more to send s child to prison than it does you send them to Eton'.So why does our failing and expensive system continue? In short, because it does a good job at punishing those at the bottom who step out of line.

America's elites today, especially progressive ones, often don't realize how judgmental they are. They disdain tacky things, and, not coincidentally, those tacky things--fake tans, big hair, pro wrestling, chrome bull testicles hanging from the back of a big truck--are usually associated with lower-income Americans.