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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. – Arabic Proverb

At a round table there is no dispute about place. – Italian Proverb

No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady. – Proverb

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. – Aristotle

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishmans heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. – Matthew Arnold

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. – Henry Ward Beecher

I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34 – Bible

Let the others have the charisma. Ive got the class. – George Bush

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. – Charles Horton Cooley

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. – Albert Einstein

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. – Friedrich Engels

When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is. – Zoe Fairbairns

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. – William Ewart Gladstone

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. – Christopher Hampton

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. – Hermann Hesse