31 Quotes About Social-classes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*