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Class Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 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…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
- Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at…
- Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting…
- What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands.…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell