How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Breakfast Club.
Quote #4
CLAIRE: Okay, what about you, you hypocrite! Why don't you take Allison to one of your heavy metal vomit parties? Or take Brian out to the parking lot at lunch to get high? What about Andy for that matter, what about me? What would your friends say if we were walking down the hall together? They'd laugh their asses off and you'd probably tell them you were doing it with me so they'd forgive you for being seen with me.
BENDER: Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends, you don't look at any of my friends, and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends so you just stick to the things you know, shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor—rich—drunk mother in the Caribbean.
Claire assumes that Bender's friends are intolerant of difference. And maybe she's right? But Bender vigorously disputes her. But is this because Claire's genuinely wrong? Or is it because Bender just wants to prove that he's less exclusive than a Claire in order to win points against her?
Quote #5
BRIAN: Then I assume Allison and I are better people than you guys, huh? Us weirdos... (to Allison) Do you, would you do that to me?
ALLISON: I don't have any friends...
BRIAN: Well if you did?
ALLISON: No... I don't think the kind of friends I'd have would mind...
Interestingly, not having friends has actually made Allison more tolerant. Even though she enjoys the exclusive company of one person—herself—she's not doing this because she thinks she's better than anyone else. She knows what it's like to feel isolated and different so she wouldn't want to force that feeling on anyone else.
Quote #6
BRIAN: I just want to tell, each of you, that I wouldn't do that... I wouldn't and I will not! 'Cause I think that's real s***ty...
CLAIRE: Your friends wouldn't mind because they look up to us...
BRIAN: You're so conceited, Claire. You're so conceited. You're so, like, full of yourself, why are you like that?
Claire's conceited because she assumes that nerds secretly admire athletes and rich people. It's conceited because she's projecting her own self-regard onto other people, assuming that they share it, when, in reality, they don't. It's not that Brian and his friends necessarily dislike people like Claire: More likely, they're indifferent. They have other things to do, and can't waste time hating people who look down on them.