Quotes about class
class parent chosen
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer. Zhang Ziyi
class odor authority
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. William Greider
class giving world
SUNY gives you a world-class education. William Baldwin
class america people
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader. Washington Irving
class people church
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance. Walter Lippmann
class ideas atheism
It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.
class elude public-opinion
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
class diversity support
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
class islands literature
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. William Styron
class jew privileged
I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune. William Joyce
class psychology inquiry
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. Wilhelm Wundt
class rich middle
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich. William Julius Wilson
class gaps economic
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
class bored may
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. Winston Churchill
class race violence
Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender. Rebecca Solnit
class perfectly-normal lessons
New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF!" - Percy Rick Riordan
class jail humanity
Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other places. Yet... Samuel Johnson
class curiosity desire
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.
class humanity nerves
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its uneasiness, which those who do not feel them will not commiserate. An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.
class people made
[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up. Sam Brownback
class difficult
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. Sade Adu
class prestige structure
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
class southern slave
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. William H. Seward
class proud meanness
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. William Hazlitt
class lowest
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
class roots kingdoms
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms. William E. Gladstone
class political world
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
class voice tunes
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath. Wendell Pierce
class citizens firsts
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. Wendell Willkie
class play feelings
Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician. Wynton Marsalis
class safety looks
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. William Makepeace Thackeray
class awful excluded
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. Zygmunt Bauman
class people parent
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.