Social Class Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
— Albert Einstein
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When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And…
— Shirley M. Tilghman
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This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my…
— Jonathan Jakubowicz
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There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social…
— Oscar Romero
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Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of…
— Richard Florida
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We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the…
— Angela Carter
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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
— Judith Martin
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The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.
— James S. Coleman
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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will…
— Albert Einstein
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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension…
— David Lindsay-Abaire
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When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a…
— Learned Hand
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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
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Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to…
— Marisha Pessl
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In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
— Peter Drucker
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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
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