Class Quotes

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Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry… — E. C. Bentley
LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements… — Sean Paul
I do not make decisions [as governor] based on what have I learned through my Bible studies, what have I learned in my religious classes… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. — Ken Livingstone
Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas… — Socrates
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community — David Riesman
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as… — David Riesman
Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to… — John O'Hara
The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained.… — Henry Louis Gates
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within… — Henry Louis Gates
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public… — Mortimer Zuckerman
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. — Zygmunt Bauman
A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes. — George Hamilton
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their… — Hermann Goring
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of… — James Buchan
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the… — Terry Eagleton
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton

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