A Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. — © Nicolas Chamfort
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony.
Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.
The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.
The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
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