Quotes about Class System

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. Votes: 4

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene. Votes: 4

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people. Votes: 4

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. Votes: 4

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system. Votes: 3

A class system is something you use to discriminate someone who looks like you Votes: 3

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. Votes: 3

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. Votes: 3

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England. Votes: 3

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans. Votes: 3

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. Votes: 2

America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief. Votes: 2

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system. Votes: 2

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines. Votes: 2

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth. Votes: 2

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. Votes: 2

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Votes: 2

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men. Votes: 2

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. Votes: 2

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. Votes: 0

I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system. Votes: 0

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. Votes: 0

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. Votes: 0

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. Votes: 0

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors. Votes: 0

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. Votes: 0

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi. Votes: 0

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class. Votes: 0

I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington. Votes: 0