Class Quotes

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I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.… — Clarence Darrow
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working… — Emma Goldman
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,… — Karl Marx
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only… — Karl Marx
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy. — Karl Marx
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man… — Gerald Stanley Lee
My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a car in high… — Reggie Watts
I think we need to take on the greed of the billionaire class, a disastrous campaign finance system. — Bernie Sanders
I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make… — Billy Bob Thornton
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and… — Chaka Khan
I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom… — Questlove

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