Class Quotes · Page 73

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

— Bell Hooks

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

— Richard Russo

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

— Jon Bon Jovi

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

— Vladimir Lenin

Hazard is world class, he is amazing. The way he protects the ball and his first touch is incredible.

— Serge Gnabry

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and…

— Sherman Alexie

There should be an F.A.A. fine for those who bring hot food that emits odor onto the plane. You're deemed selfish, and…

— Iliza Shlesinger

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home,…

— Cory Booker

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to…

— Karl Marx

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent…

— Eric Fischl

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that…

— Amartya Sen

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices,…

— Orhan Pamuk

The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of…

— Grover Furr

My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I…

— Sam Smith

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and…

— Edward Snowden

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation…

— Anonymous

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

— Derek Raymond

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.

— Bill Foster

The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of…

— Pliny the Elder

“You go a different route to class just to see his face you take his favorite sweater just so he has to…

— Allie Roberts

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are…

— Charles Murray

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor…

— Donald Trump

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way…

— Luke Kirby

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

— Richard Russo

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all…

— Pope Francis

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

— Timothy West

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

— Clay Shirky

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

— Alphonso Jackson

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to…

— Graham Norton

No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all…

— Barry Ritholtz

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm…

— Gloria Steinem

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a…

— Alexa Von Tobel

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue…

— Jackie Mason

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such…

— Deng Xiaoping

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all…

— Claire LaZebnik

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…

— Peter Ackroyd

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class…

— Joan Collins