Class Quotes

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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. — Thomas Jefferson
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the… — Thomas Paine
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. — Isaac Asimov
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. — Robert Benchley
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. — John Hume
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the… — John Hume
The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The… — John Marshall
When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in… — Stephan Pastis
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that… — Booker T. Washington
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the… — Margaret Sanger
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent… — Eugene V. Debs
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations… — Eugene V. Debs
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also… — Eugene V. Debs
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs

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