Class Quotes

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I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… — Mother Jones
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures… — Aristotle
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. — Elizabeth Blackwell
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good. — Harold Prince
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many… — Amartya Sen
The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by… — John Dewey
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial… — Leo Tolstoy
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. — Spike Milligan
Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. — Ronald Reagan
I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this… — Pete Doherty
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating… — Leo Tolstoy
Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in… — Pope John Paul II
A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic… — John Conyers
The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative. — Paul Wellstone
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class. — Leonard Woolf
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. — Al-MaÊ¿arri
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person… — Jane Addams
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,… — Pete Townshend
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system… — Noam Chomsky

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