Class Quotes

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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… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign… — David Brin
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the… — David Brooks
The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past… — David Brooks
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay… — Rachel Naomi Remen
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,… — Ludwig von Mises
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. — Aristotle
[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals… — H. L. Mencken
You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves. — Joel Stein
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing,… — John Shelton Reed
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father… — Taslima Nasrin
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a… — Noah Cicero
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st… — Will Cotton
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

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