Quotes about class
class ideas political
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements Emma Goldman
class people catholic
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. John McGahern
class people credit
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. John Hume
class two people
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well. John Henrik Clarke
class luck middle
The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. John Mortimer
class acting sides
Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side. Lauren Conrad
class lots-of-friends cafeteria
If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person. Lady Gaga
class warfare rich
If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare. Lewis Black
class ideas tennis
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. Joseph Heller
class parent our-society
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. Joseph Campbell
class horror bourgeois
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois. Jules Renard
classroom partisan-politics partisans
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. Juan Cole
class people together
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. JR
class people looks
We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed. Karen Joy Fowler
class vocabulary dumb
My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary. Karen Russell
class rose proud
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty. Kate Reardon
class people doe
I don't do any Class A -especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people. Kate Moss
class trying world
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise. L. Sprague de Camp
class united-states consciousness
The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others. John Kenneth Galbraith
class next-day one-day
The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.
class president american-universities
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
class riches rich
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
class names special
It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession. Lionel Trilling
class ideas imagination
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
class acting twelve
I started taking acting classes when I was twelve. Lindsay Wagner
class trouble fitting
I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be. Logan Henderson
class students thrown
If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. Lynda Barry
classroom trenches frontiers
The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore. Lyndon B. Johnson
class together fascination
As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me. Louis Auchincloss
class people feminism
People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that. Lorde
class four action
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . Maimonides
class people evil
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
class poverty generations
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty. Mahatma Gandhi