Class Quotes
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking.
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'
I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?
I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.
The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.
In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon.
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.
