Class Quotes

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The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over… — Oscar Wilde
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen. — William Hazlitt
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes… — Washington Irving
There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class… — Jay Leno
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development… — Karl Marx
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic. — Alfred Adler
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have… — Bertrand Russell
Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art. — Bertrand Russell
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social,… — Richard Florida
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of… — Robertson Davies
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is… — Charles Darwin
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who… — Ludwig von Mises
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions.… — Ben Shahn
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... — Wassily Kandinsky
I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period… — Dorothy Nolte
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of… — Kathe Kollwitz
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves… — Beatrice Webb
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. — Sidney Poitier

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