social class quotes

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.