Class Differences Quotes

• ... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Health, Life Is Short, Class

  Richard G. Wilkinson, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (1986). “Class and health”

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• The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.

  David L. Bazelon

  Class, Differences, Decision

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• I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Class, Differences, Justice

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Class, Differences

  "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

  Anthony Burgess

  Class, Differences, Theatre

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• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Men, Class

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

  Terence McKenna

  Smart, Moving, Believe

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• Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

  Bell Hooks

  Educational, Reality, Class

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.185, Routledge

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• Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.

  Anthony Crosland

  Air, Class, Differences

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

  Bill Walsh

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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