Class Quotes
4175 Class quotes by 2820 unique authors
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For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in…
— Lindsey Graham
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I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether…
— Lindsey Graham
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If we're going to be successful in taking on the billionaire class, we need a strong national grassroots movement.
— Hillary Clinton
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We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side.…
— Hillary Clinton
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My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want…
— Ester Dean
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Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor
— Robert Reich
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No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is…
— Robert Reich
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I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to…
— Robert Reich
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Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
— Robert Reich
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A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.
— Martin O'Malley
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As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside…
— Jamie Bell
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Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who…
— Robert Reich
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This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good…
— William J. Clinton
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
— Yelawolf
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Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
— Thomas de Quincey
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The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over…
— Oscar Wilde
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
— William Hazlitt
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Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes…
— Washington Irving
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There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class…
— Jay Leno
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The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
— Juvenal
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What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development…
— Karl Marx
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The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
— Alfred Adler
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The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have…
— Bertrand Russell
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Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.
— Bertrand Russell
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