Quotes about class
class ruling states
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. Karl Marx
class ideas intellectual
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
class oppression antagonism
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.
class revolutionary working-class
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
class long competition
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
class warfare would-be
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
class individual proportion
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.
class kind innocent
I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background. Julia Child
class humanity suffering
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? Mary McCarthy
class names perception
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name. Mark Twain
class tyrants mind
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
class giving challenges
A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges. Nicholas Sparks
class ugly rhythm
Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk. Muhammad Ali
class cadillacs firsts
If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
class race needs
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce. Mitch Landrieu
class people dancer
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. Mikhail Baryshnikov
class america race
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. Marian Wright Edelman
class arguing reason
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes. Maria Edgeworth
class enemy slavery
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State. Mikhail Bakunin
class frequency hands large lecture move particular poll radio raise remaining response speak students system time understand unwilling using whether
For the first time I am using a radio frequency response system where I can poll the class electronically during my lecture to see if they understand my teaching, whether I should move on, or if I need to rephrase a particular concept. Many students are unwilling to raise their hands during a large lecture; this system allows them to speak up while remaining anonymous.
classical-music ability
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. Itzhak Perlman
class ideas race
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution. Isaiah Berlin
class students
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. Imogen Cunningham
class world want
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to. Imtiaz Ali
class important dresses
It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass. Imelda Marcos
class support fantasy
That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them. Gloria Steinem
class ideas racist
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
class pay united-states
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
class planning-ahead goal
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
class hypocrisy competition
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. J. K. Rowling
class missing werewolf
He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!
class dying looks
I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!
class play ideas
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. H. L. Mencken