It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. — Plato Copy Share Image
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
I was in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. So we really experienced Facebook in a unique way. It launched… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first class. It's one… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
“My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying his way into the… — Ann Medlock Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image