Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor… — Robert Charles Wilson
Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been… — Thomas Frank
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college… — Steve Jobs
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us… — Matthew Arnold
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a… — Alan Jackson
I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on… — Ricky Gervais
The terrible thing in England is if you interview a thousand people, five hundred of them will talk like they're going into a Guy Ritchie… — Ricky Gervais
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class. — Vladimir Lenin
The working class must control the factories and the country — Alan Woods
I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank. — Jasper Carrott
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
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
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
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's… — Gail Collins
Sport must be accessible to working class youth. — Pierre de Coubertin
I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't… — Paloma Faith
I came from a real working-class show business family. — Sally Field
My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me… — Tom Hiddleston

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