Class Quotes
4175 quotes by 2820 authors
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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few…
— Winston Churchill
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.'…
— Daniel H. Pink
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When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.
— Miranda Kerr
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If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd…
— Leo Buscaglia
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A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy…
— George Gilder
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I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great…
— Seth Godin
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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.
— J. Ogden Armour
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No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
— Thomas Sowell
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
— John Ruskin
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To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted…
— Leon Trotsky
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There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class.…
— Albert Einstein
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Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the…
— Mark Lilla
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Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by…
— Wolfe Tone
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Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't…
— James Connolly
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We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches…
— Thomas S. Power
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Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the…
— Russell Baker
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There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical'…
— Tupac Shakur
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