Class Quotes

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.