Class Quotes · Page 18

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad.…

— Michael Parenti

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

— Michael Bloomberg

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

— Bernie Sanders

My workout has to be a class, otherwise I won't get a good workout in. I'll just kind of be lazy about…

— Witney Carson

If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because…

— Joe Bageant

Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.

— Wendy Long

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and…

— Blaise Pascal

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also…

— Christine Lakin

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked…

— Tom T. Hall

“Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I came from a real working-class show business family.

— Sally Field

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both…

— Lewis Mumford

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

— Frederick Lenz

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over…

— Lucy Alibar

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that…

— Jason Reeves

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

— Katharine McPhee

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

— Redd Foxx

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And…

— Bill Moyers

Robben is truly world class, proving himself at the highest level in England, Spain, Germany and on the international stage.

— Jamie Carragher

Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

— Aristotle

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It…

— Cyril Connolly

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which…

— Matthea Harvey

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

— Geraldine Brooks

Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as…

— Len McCluskey