New Class Quotes:

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Jobs, Mean, Beer, White Collar, New Class

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: Class, People, Water, Mass Production, 18th Century

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

- Timothy Garton Ash

source: "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

topic: Class, Generations, Graduates, New Class

With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Practice, Class, Evil, Lexicon, Underprivileged

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

- Mary McGrory

source: Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.97, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Country, Nice, Class, New Class

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

- Steven Weber

topic: Mean, Technology, Class, Knowledge Workers, New Class

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

- Wale

source: "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

topic: New Class

That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was predicted by [Mikhail] Bakunin in the early days of the formation of the modern intelligentsia in the 19th century.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.publicanthropology.org

topic: Powerful, Class, Names, Cooperating, New Class

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

- Judith Butler

source: Source: www.opendemocracy.net

topic: Class, Political, Understanding, New Class

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.

- Peter Drucker

source: "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

topic: Class, Giving, People, Manual Work, Knowledge Workers

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.

- William Whewell

source: William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.155, Hackett Publishing

topic: Class, Facts, Elements, New Class

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

- Mortimer Zuckerman

topic: Class, Upset, Kind, Counterparts, Public Servants

To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted and consists in putting a new class in power, thus enabling it to realize its own program in life. It is impossible to wage war and to reject victory.

- Leon Trotsky

topic: War, Essence, Class, New Class

Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.

- Peter J. Carroll

source: Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.90, Weiser Books

topic: Fashion, Technology, Civilization, Subculture, Transmutation

Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Ignorance, Land, Class, New Class

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

- Brian Kernighan

topic: Class, Bugs, Users, Debugging, New Class

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

- Rahm Emanuel

topic: Gun, Law, Class, New Class

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

- Ringo Starr

topic: School, Boys, Class, New Class

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Source: www.raisethehammer.org

topic: Class, Gains, Energy, Traction, New Class