Class Quotes

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When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any… — Merton Miller
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and… — Thomas B. Macaulay
To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. — StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses. — James Whistler
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes… — Carl Jung
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case… — D. H. Lawrence
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a… — Learned Hand
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. — Katharine Whitehorn
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. — George Bernard Shaw
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can… — Aristotle
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? — Walker Percy
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my… — Walker Percy
Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to… — John Bartholomew Gough
There is no difference in our souls...That is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves -- our cultures and classes.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. — Mignon McLaughlin
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The… — Thomas Carlyle
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,… — Elif Safak

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