Quotes about class
class goes-on charity
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth. Christopher Hitchens
class way ruling
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. Christopher Hitchens
class two revolutionary
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic. Garet Garrett
class proletariat middle
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other. Fritz Sauckel
class skills people
I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way. George Carlin
class mortuary
Equality is a mortuary word. Christopher Fry
class sitting different
My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class. Christine Taylor
class giving people
But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left. Christine Taylor
class birth middle
Middle-class families know education begins at birth. Geoffrey Canada
class paris catholic
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
class safe sides
To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future. Christian Morgenstern
class people working-class
My sympathies have always been for working-class people. Christa McAuliffe
class wells bottom
I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class. Chris Lilley
class hatred patriotism
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. George Orwell
class soul politics
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! George Orwell
class wipe tendencies
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. George Orwell
class secret littles
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. Friedrich Nietzsche
class community want
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society? Jeanette Winterson
class scary freeman
Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. Jim Carrey
class entrepreneur michigan
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. Jennifer Granholm
class snakes weather
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. Harriet Ann Jacobs
class effort progression
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class. Harriet Martineau
class excellence moral
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions. Harriet Martineau
class two giving
There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it. Harriet Beecher Stowe
class guy gentleman
First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news. Halle Berry
classical-music century late
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all. Gregory Maguire
classical-music loud migraine
What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud. Ian McLagan
class tongue faces
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. Iain Glen
class world monopoly
It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor. Howard Zinn
class failing middle
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. Howard Zinn
class literature serious
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. Howard Nemerov
class two focus
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. Hank Azaria
class limits expansion
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. Hannah Arendt