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“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.
CLAUDIUS Alas, alas.
HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.”
― William Shakespeare

“One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children”
― Ron Rash, Serena

“The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a social message and can only be 'put over' on the basis of an immediate and profound affinity with the values and expectations of its audience. The theatre divides its public and divides itself. The Parisian opposition between right-bank and left-bank theatr, bourgeois theatre and avant-garde theatre, is inextricably aesthetic and political.”
― Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.”
― Erik Olin Wright, Approaches to Class Analysis

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighboursâ€�, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“For every first-class dog that entered the lifeboats, twenty-nine steerage women and nineteen children died. Emily Badman and Kathy Gilnagh seemed destined to be counted among the lost, having found themselves penned in behind a drawn gate, deep within the stern. An armed, junior officer stood on the other side. "Following orders," he insisted. "It's not time for you to go up.”
― Charles Pellegrino, Ghosts of the Titanic

“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.”
― Ivan Illich

“Pig owes her much more than she could ever pay back. It had felt much less burdensome to feel like she would always be the one to so generously give.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“The so-called socialist societies rediscover, under modified forms, the necessities inherent in any modern economic system. There, just as under capitalism, the ‘boss classâ€� lays down the law. (...) Up to now the planners, by reason of penury and of the decision to develop economic power as rapidly as possible, have not concerned themselves either with the productivity of the various investments or with the consumersâ€� preferences. It will not be long before they experience the perils of slump and deflation and the exigencies of economic arithmetic.”
― Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals

“Nor could she talk as she did. But why wish to resemble her? Why? She despised Mrs. Dalloway from the bottom of her heart. She was not serious. She was not good. Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit. Yet Doris Kilman had been overcome. She had, as a matter of fact, very nearly burst into tears when Clarissa Dalloway laughed at her.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literature etc., one would have to analyse fully the social uses, legitimate or illegitimate, to which each of the arts, genres, works or institutions considered lends itself. For example, nothing more clearly affirms one's 'class', nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music.”
― Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

“The conventional way of understanding taste, according to Distinction, is to view it as a capacity for aesthetic judgments in areas such as music, art, and literature. Though rarely made explicit, it is well understood that taste can be found only among the elite, and that the lower classes lack it. Bourdieu argues that it is imperative to break with this concept of taste and replace it with one that is sociological in nature. In order to do so, Bourdieu expands the concept of taste from including only "aesthetic consumption" to including "ordinary consumption," that is, the consumption of clothing, furniture, and food ([1979] 1986:100). He also extends the concept of taste to all social classes, and shows that what constitutes "good taste" is very much part of the struggle for domination in society.”
― Richard Swedberg, Principles of Economic Sociology

“As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.”
― Alejandro Portes, Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry

“Personally, I would be ashamed to be rich and have precious and expensive goods only to show to the other people that I have more worth than them when in some parts of the world there are people who suffer. No one has more worth than anyone. Everyone can be worthy if he has conditions in his life that enable him to reclaim his values. Worth lies in culture, not in appearance and possession. Besides, every person has his own mission in this world and everyone is valuable.”
― Maria Karvouni

“â€� Livet är värt precis sÃ¥ mycket, som vi vet med oss själva, att vi kan göra av värde i det, inte vad andra möjligen förmÃ¥r uppskatta. Känslan av gemensamhet ligger kanske inte sÃ¥ väl till för oss människor, ifall vi inte nÃ¥gon gÃ¥ng är sjuka eller i nöd, men vi mÃ¥ste kunna lita pÃ¥ varann, uppÃ¥t som nedÃ¥t, även om uppÃ¥t och nedÃ¥t nog kommer att finnas i alla fall ...â€� (Sid. 421)”
― Ivar Lo-Johansson, Kungsgatan

“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes there were people who made shoes or were soldiers. Occasionally there was priest supported by the church. But that was all; all the types of professions, all the different economic classes of people.
Maybe, like hair color, wealth in the outside world was more nuanced and subtly shaded than her stories suggested.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine

“There are many histories of North America. The experiences of successive waves of immigrants are distinct, as are—to a large degree—the histories of the different classes compromising the immigrant waves. The histories of the various peoples native to the continent are also quite distinct within themselves. The story of each of these groups holds a rightful claim to its own integrity, to its own place and fullness of meaning within the whole. To deny this is to distort.”
― Winona LaDuke

“Leaders and disciples, queens and subjects, preachers and pupils - all these are a sign of a sectarian society, all these are a sign of a sick society. No queen, no subject - no leader, no disciple - in love all are one, one is all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“This planet has never been the home of the human race, it has always been the home of the rich and privileged, while the rest of humanity slave their butt off, barely scraping by on hand-me-downs and leftovers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“If you were not born with a silver spoon, take any spoon, and coat it with silver.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Only really important women can get away with wearing really ridiculous hats.”
― John J.B. Wilson, Everything I Know I Learned at the Movies: A Compilation of Cliches and Un-Truisms Gleaned from a Lifetime Spent Entirely Too Much in the Dark

“They say eternally, like my correspondent, that the ordinary woman is always a drudge. And what in the name of the Nine Gods, is the ordinary man? These people seem to think that the ordinary man is a Cabinet Minister. They are always talking about man going forth to wiled power, to carve his own way, to stamp his individuality on the world, to command and to be obeyed. This may be true of a certain class. Dukes, perhaps, are not drudges; but then, neither are duchesses.”
― G. K Chesterton, Woman

“The Dark Cloud
Is the criticism you face because you don’t want to kiss ass
Is the rage you experience when people are treated like they are a “lower social class�
Is the animated facet of your nature that has a certain keenness
Is the policy you have of not tolerating unnecessary meanness”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud