Class Quotes

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.

I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol.