Class Quotes

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I'm fairly fit.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.