Class Quotes

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Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. — Thomas Paine
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. — William Hazlitt
Equality is a mortuary word. — Christopher Fry
The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better. — E. W. Howe
When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master. — John F. Kennedy
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye… — Louis Kronenberger
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes… — Robert Benchley
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in… — Franklin P. Adams
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The race… — Edwin Way Teale
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself. — Jean Giraudoux
It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first. — Jonathan Swift
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave. — Aristotle
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of… — Thorstein Veblen
I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our… — George Raveling
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone… — P.G. Wodehouse
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's… — George Santayana

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