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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.

  • An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

    Thinking   Class   Oxford  
    Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.216, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • 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.

    Animal   Class   Roles  
  • 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.

    Essence   Class   Justice  
    Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
  • I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

  • 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.

    Class   Hobbies   Tire  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

    Source: www.themarysue.com
  • Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

  • 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.

    Law   Class   Long  
  • 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.

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

    Country   Class   Pay  
    Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
  • We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

    Class   Two   Personality  
    "Giving Introverts Permission to Be Themselves". Interview with Zosia Bielski, www.theglobeandmail.com. January 26, 2012.
  • There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

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

  • 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.

    Mean   Race   Class  
    Source: bluestockingsmag.com
  • 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.

    "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.
  • I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

  • 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.

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

  • The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.

    Real   War   Party  
    "What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America". Book by Thomas Frank, April 1, 2007.
  • Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

    Book   Class   Wings  
  • 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.

    Lying   Class   Roots  
    "The Yorkshire Post" Newspaper, November 22, 1976.
  • 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.

    Stars   Hero   Class  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.

    Source: collider.com
  • Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

    Class   People   Special  
  • 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

  • Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

  • The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.

  • 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.

    Love   Life   Race  
    Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Acceptance Speech, delivered 7 March 2010
  • People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

    Girl   Thinking   Class  
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