Class Quotes

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The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing… — Eugene V. Debs
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off… — William James
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. — Karl Marx
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be… — Karl Marx
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each… — Karl Marx
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than… — Karl Marx
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies.… — Louis Althusser
Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. — Henry A. Kissinger
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence… — Charles Babbage
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so… — Bobby Fischer
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean… — John le Carre
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. — Mikhail Botvinnik
Afternoon classes - that evil invention! — John Gresham Machen
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order… — William Graham Sumner

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