Class Quotes
4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There…
— V.S. Naipaul
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the…
— Beatrice Webb
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My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I…
— Christopher Parker
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Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease…
— Sun Yat-sen
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
— Kevin Kline
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I would like you to rise each morning and know that you are heterosexual and that you choose to be heterosexual - that you are…
— Marilyn Frye
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The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what…
— Harry Wong
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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were…
— Gerhard Richter
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[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
— Peter Medawar
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
— Ken Livingstone
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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
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There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community
— David Riesman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
— Zygmunt Bauman
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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
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