A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte
French - Statesman
August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.

Noel Coward

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Oscar Wilde

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.

Steven Pinker

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

James Adomian

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

Tracey Ullman

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Bertrand Russell

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

Bhagat Singh

Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.

Caroline Fraser

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

Benito Mussolini

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

Rhys Bowen

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

Geoff Rickly

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Germaine Greer

I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.

Kali Uchis

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

Michael Parenti

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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