Class Quotes

4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.… — Ayn Rand
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century… — Lillian Hellman
Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair. — Lillian Hellman
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in… — David Mamet
In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed,… — Mark Burnett
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put… — John Drinkwater
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they… — Barbara Ehrenreich
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture… — Lee Iacocca
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm… — Diana Trilling
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there… — Calvin Trillin
I class myself as a manual laborer. — Theodore White
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got… — Nigel Rees
I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I… — Nolan Bushnell
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and… — Gregory Bateson
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. — Martin Amis
The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see… — Lionel Trilling
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That… — Lionel Trilling
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. — Pierre de Coubertin
I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our… — Paul Engle
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of… — Claude Levi-Strauss
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland… — Jonathan Kozol
Comfort came in with the middle classes. — Clive Bell
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill… — Jonathan Raban

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