Class Quotes

The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overlook my past ways.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her.

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

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.

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs.

They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

I might have to consider coaching- I'm getting too old to be a world class runner and my mind isn't gone enough to become an official.

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.

You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.

Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball - you can figure out things for your hurt feelings.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

I believe the middle class game is dead.