Class Quotes

4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their… — Hermann Goring
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of… — James Buchan
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the… — Terry Eagleton
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton
Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much.… — Meg Cabot
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. — Giovanni Ruffini
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a… — Katarina Witt
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't… — Stephen L. Carter
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. — Constance Baker Motley
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. — Constance Baker Motley
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor,… — Richard Dreyfuss
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained… — William Whewell
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation… — John Millington Synge
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes. — Werner Herzog
Youth has become a class. — Roger Vadim
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but… — Chester Brown
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. — Elia Kazan
I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest… — Matt Damon
I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people. — James Ellroy
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. — Dave Eggers
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. — Chris Martin
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and… — Chris Martin
I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on… — Elizabeth Warren
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. — Jay Baruchel

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