Class Distinctions Quotes

“Republicans and Democrats both---comprise a 'Ruling Class' that no longer believes itself accountable to the People. This Ruling Class thinks of the Country Class disdainfully as retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional ---unless properly constrained.”
― Angelo M. Codevilla, author: The Ruling Class (deceased 2021 - In Memory)

“It appeared, not to put too fine a point upon it, that to Mr. Adams’s mind Mrs. Merivale and her daughters were not quite good enough for his daughter. The terrifying and to her almost unexplored hierarchy of the great mass of English people rose before her with all its gins and snares. Belonging as she did to a level upon which the Duke of Omnium at one end and, say, Robin Dale, the crippled schoolmaster, at the other, were in essentials equal, being, though a duke was always a duke, gentlemen, she had never really troubled to conceive the gradations, far greater than those between peer and private gentleman, which seamed and rent the sub-middle classes.”
― Angela Thirkell, Miss Bunting