Famous quotes containing the words privileged classes, privileged and/or classes:
“The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation onlynot from its privileged classes.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.”
—James Madison (17511836)