Class Quotes

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Youth has become a class.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted.

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

Class is classlessness.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers.

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I do Tracy Anderson's dance aerobics classes.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

The class war is over.

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.