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I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.