Class Quotes

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world.

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

Freedom for the working class!

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.