Classes

Quotations on Classes

It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do and go to bed early because they have so little to think about.

I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.

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

Extraordinary thing about the lower classes in England – they are always losing their relations. They are extremely fortunate in that respect.

Good kings are the only dangerous enemies that modern democracy has.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at stars.

The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led individualism entirely astray . . . The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.