Upper Class Quotes - Page 3

• The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

  Margaret Halsey

  Insulting, Asking, Dinner

  With Malice Toward Some pt. 3 (1938)

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• I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Loyalty, Thinking, Class

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• But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time - it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hands, Class, San Francisco

  Tapes from 1971 as presented in "All the Philosopher King's Men" by James Warren in Harper's Magazine, February 2000.

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• Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.

  Steven Pinker

  Class, Criticism, Entertainment

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.370, Penguin

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• I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Girl, Drinking, Paris

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• In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

  Mary McCarthy

  Class, Humanity, Suffering

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• I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Self, Class, Feminism

  "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism".

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• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  Caitlin Moran

  Class, Aristocracy, Campaigns

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• Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Boys, Class

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.261, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Class, Numbers, People

  Carl I. Hagen's speech at the Progress Party national convention, 1987.

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• The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider

  Strong, Class, Heaven

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• For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Safety, Age

  "Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens".

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• The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Years, Class

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

  Peter York

  Father, Yale, Class

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• Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

  Nicholas Haslam

  Piano, House, Royal

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• How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

  James M. Barrie

  Morning, Pull Ups, Servant

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• I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

  A. N. Wilson

  Self, Towns, Dukes

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• We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

  Stacy Schiff

  Years, Class, World

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• The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Government, Land, Class

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• And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent of the cases that occur in middle- or upper-class families, usually associated with home renovations. People are sanding paint, removing banisters, cleaning up windowsills, and they don't realize that they're spewing lead dust around in the house. And then the kids get it.

  Deirdre Imus

  Home, Kids, Dust

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Struggle, Epic

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

  Terry Eagleton

  Sympathy, Lying, Writing

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Class, Parent, Our Society

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.

  Warren Farrell

  Class, Luxury, Parent

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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