Class Quotes

I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

I owe my allegiance to the working class.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

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.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.

In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.

We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of the country.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.

I think beauty has a lot to do with class. A bit of mystery. Rarity.

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.