Class Quotes

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Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just… — Valerie Thomas
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film. — Brit Marling
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion,… — Christian Nestell Bovee
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from… — Wilfrid Sheed
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not… — Jean de la Bruyere
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the… — J. M. Ledgard
Girls learn sexiness, women teach class. — Unknown Author
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by… — Gore Vidal
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.… — Clarence Darrow
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow… — Saul Bellow
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working… — Emma Goldman
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,… — Karl Marx
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only… — Karl Marx
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy. — Karl Marx
You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man… — Gerald Stanley Lee

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