Class Quotes

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

You meet a better class of person in pubs.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a variant form of upper-class politics and self-privileging.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

I made a living out of being a class clown

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.

[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

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.

I do everything halfway, a thing of which adults disapprove, but things done halfway are deceptive, and in a class of their own – for instance, the sun is really twice its size.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.