Class System Quotes

• The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

  Clive James

  Essence, Class, Justice

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

  George Packer

  Class, Democracy, Inequality

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• People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

  Prince Philip

  Girl, Thinking, Class

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• We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social role of consumption. We display our class membership and solidify our class positioning in large part through money, through what we have. Consumption is a way of verifying what you have and earn.

  Juliet B. Schor

  Animal, Class, Roles

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• I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

  Tom Hiddleston

  Fans, Ugly, Where You Come

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• I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Royal, British Monarchy

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• I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

  Jilly Cooper

  People, Mind, England

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• Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

  Anne Perry

  Country, Class, Different

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.

  A. J. Muste

  Educational, Struggle, Class

  "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.

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• Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

  Tony Benn

  Lying, Class, Roots

  "The Yorkshire Post" Newspaper, November 22, 1976.

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• Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Race, Class

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

  Pete Townshend

  Law, Class, Long

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• And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Class, Pay

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor - even in this industry.

  Max Irons

  Thinking, Class, People

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.

  William Monahan

  Class, Hobbies, Tire

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

  John Lennon

  Stars, Hero, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.

  Liv Ullmann

  Opportunity, Men, August

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

  Susan Cain

  Class, Two, Personality

  "Giving Introverts Permission to Be Themselves". Interview with Zosia Bielski, www.theglobeandmail.com. January 26, 2012.

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• A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Caring

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  There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

  Sandra Bullock

  Love, Life, Race

  Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Acceptance Speech, delivered 7 March 2010

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• I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

  Robert De Niro

  Running, Thinking, Reality

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• Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--t. But His energy and His love and what He wants us to have as people and the way He wants us to love each other, that is infectious. Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.

  Kanye West

  Baby, Brother, Crazy

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

  Debra Wilson

  Fall, Class, Black

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• England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

  Kevin Ayers

  Unique, Thinking, Class

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• [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, President, Firsts

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