Quotes about class
class half students
I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible. Michael Bloomberg
class environmental nuclear
The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit from New Zealand. They're flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!
class generosity important
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. Michael Parenti
class government sides
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.
class numbers people
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
class want rewards
Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.
class acting firsts
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy. Michael Imperioli
class weight facts
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value. Paul Fussell
class america tvs
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
class ifs corsets
If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it! Patrick Rothfuss
class america russia
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America. Lillian Hellman
class royal wealth
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
class luxury people
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
class organization ideas
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition. Leon Jouhaux
class progress social
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
class division-of-labor leader
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment. Leon Trotsky
class community democracy
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout. Learned Hand
class knowing people
Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story. Lauren Myracle
class may demon
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings. L. Frank Baum
class-distinction picks
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. Pablo Picasso
class world england
In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world. Paul Merson
class rich working-class
Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich. Paul Merton
class ugly where-you-come
I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from Tom Hiddleston
class enemy add
As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. Slavoj Zizek
class barbarians middle
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. Sinclair Lewis
class
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
class cities purpose
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible. Socrates
class evil afternoon
Afternoon classes - that evil invention! John Gresham Machen
class games important
Class is more important than a game. Pat Summitt
class luxury pay
First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. P. D. James
class protection scope
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class. P. J. O'Rourke
class community bishops
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. P. G. Wodehouse
classic hellhounds
Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.