Class Quotes
4175 quotes by 2930 authors
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The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,…
— Johann Joachim Becher
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Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.
— Lena Horne
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
— Cyril Connolly
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Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do…
— Gregory A. Boyd
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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.
— James Callaghan
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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
— Roy Jenkins
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The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
— Vladimir Lenin
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Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man…
— Vladimir Lenin
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People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians…
— Carl I. Hagen
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Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes...
— John Podesta
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Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and…
— Jesse Helms
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You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the…
— Gore Vidal
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We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.
— Gore Vidal
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Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
— Lord Acton
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