Upper Class Quotes

• The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

  George Orwell

  Class, Wish, Desire

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Class, People, Boredom

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Gone, Exotic

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Class

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

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• Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Wealth, Middle

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

  Germaine Greer

  Class, Evolution, Charming

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• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Class, People, Film

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Ignorance, Squares

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Class

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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• 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.

  Joseph Epstein

  Class, Style, May

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

  Whittaker Chambers

  Class, United States, Republican

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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

  Judith Martin

  Women, Class, America

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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

  Holly Near

  Journey, Men, Class

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• 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.

  Francois Gautier

  Class, Paris, Catholic

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

  August Strindberg

  Order, Class, Economic Inequality

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• Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

  Jeff Koons

  Dog, Class, Luxury

  "From Full Phantom Five". "Parkett", Nr. 19, (p. 45), 1989.

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

  Michael Parenti

  Class, Generosity, Important

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• Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mean, Class, Wealth

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• 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.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, Giving Up, Mean

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

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• All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Class, Three

  Christina Stead (1936). “The beauties and furies”

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• There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

  Geoff Rickly

  Class, Radio, Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Karma, Believe, Class

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• The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Country, Heart, Errors

  Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London, May 24, 1870.

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• While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Class, Rags

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.254, Routledge

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• Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Class, Innovation, Characteristics

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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