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  • Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

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

  • The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

    Teacher   School   Boys  
  • Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

    Class   People   Cinema  
    Source: www.freepatentsonline.com
  • We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!

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

    Class   Wish   Desire  
  • 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.

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

    Journey   Men   Class  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Giving Up   Mean  
    Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin
  • The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.115, Beacon Press
  • In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

    Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing
  • We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

    Class   Luxury   Deny  
  • ...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

    Class   Long   Royalty  
  • I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

    Art   Sex   Class  
    Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr
  • The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

    Strong   Class   Heaven  
  • 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.

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

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

    Men   Class   Three  
    Christina Stead (1936). “The beauties and furies”
  • Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

    Class   Groups   Bolivia  
  • 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, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

    Country   War   Order  
  • If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

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

    Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.124, Courier Corporation
  • I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

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

    Dog   Class   Luxury  
    "From Full Phantom Five". "Parkett", Nr. 19, (p. 45), 1989.
  • 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.

  • The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.

    New York   Class   People  
    "Living Is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noe". "Post Script" Interview with Mitch Davis, June 22, 2002.
  • I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

    Thinking   Class   People  
    Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com
  • 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.

    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.
  • Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

    Hate   Mean   Class  
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