Class Quotes
4175 quotes by 2930 authors
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I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments…
— Marcello Malpighi
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She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
— Edmund White
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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the…
— Alber Elbaz
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The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize…
— Albert Einstein
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The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their…
— Erwin Rommel
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So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and…
— Jean Vanier
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle…
— Karl Marx
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday…
— Stuart Chase
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The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of…
— Mao Zedong
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I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
— Charlaine Harris
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My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with…
— Angela Kinsey
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Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes,…
— Chris Colfer
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The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that…
— Michael Gove
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