Class Quotes

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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,… — Abraham Lincoln
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln
The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to… — William R. Looney III
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in… — Mao Zedong
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it… — Herbert Baxter Adams
Even if kids don't love gymnastics, if they start at any age with some classes, they can learn so many different things - they can… — Nastia Liukin
Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which… — Charles Babbage
First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class… — Cory Booker
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot… — Ernest Belfort Bax
In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW. — Drake
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you. — John Mortimer
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are… — Lucy Parsons
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other… — Abraham Lincoln
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still… — Jonathan Lethem
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by… — John Updike
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it… — Benjamin Disraeli
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book… — William Butler Yeats

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