Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 134
“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.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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"Mixed Essays, Equality" (1879)

“Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.”
Source: The Hour of Decision

Speech at the Progress Party national convention of 1987, published in Aftenposten (16 June 2006) http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1354131.ece

“They have no consciousness of themselves as persons or as members of an oppressed class.”
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), p. 29
On Tarun Tejpal's rape accusation and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, as quoted in " Tejpal's email apology strong documentary evidence http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tejpals-email-apology-strong-documentary-evidence/articleshow/26224417.cms" The Times of India (23 November 2013)