|
If experience
has established any one thing in this world, it has
established this: that it is well for any great class and
description of men in society to be able to say for itself
what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called
educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its
proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to
provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either
fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but
it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the
matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better
chance of success.
-- Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet,
Critic
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, what's left of them.
-- Roland Barthes
1915-1980, French Semiologist
The ignorant
classes are the dangerous classes.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
Let the others
have the charisma. I've got the class.
-- George Bush
1924-, Forty-first President
of the USA
|
|
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
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
The
distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the
last analysis they rest on force.
-- Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born
American Physicist
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
1820-1895, German Social
Philosopher
When we say a
woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her
husband or father is.
-- Zoe Fairbairns
|
