Class Quotes

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

SUNY gives you a world-class education.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut.

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.

With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.You’re better than that.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

What we ought to know we never be taught in the classroom.

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.

The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.

I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.