Class Quotes

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

Women are still second-class citizens.

I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

Get off your sofa and pick your jawbones off the floor, that was a world-class save.

Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits

If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.