Class Quotes

4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have… — Cleveland Amory
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public… — Henrik Ibsen
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that… — Lincoln Steffens
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to… — Fergie
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian… — Clara Zetkin
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through… — Anne Graham Lotz
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. — James Bovard
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives… — Suzanne Farrell
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the… — Lydia M. Child
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in… — Abraham Lincoln
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,… — George Orwell
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former… — Robert E. Lee
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people… — Garrison Keillor
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does… — Gilbert Highet
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a… — Orson Scott Card
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind… — Gunter Grass
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be… — Joseph Epstein
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere,… — Roland Barthes

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