Class Quotes
4175 quotes by 2930 authors
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.'…
— Hank Azaria
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
— David Bailey
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
— David Bailey
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class,…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the…
— Tammy Baldwin
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
— Arthur Balfour
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
— Gerry Adams
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
— Javier Bardem
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