Class Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“Both for society as well as for the individual there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. In order that one may…

— B.R. Ambedkar

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident. It can handle anything that comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows…

— Ann Landers

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

— Maximillian Degenerez

“In the future, a part of this class - individuals particularly sensitive to this question of the future - will realize that their happiness…

— Jacques Attali

“Athletics have an obvious advantage over the classics for the purpose of leisure-class learning, since success as an athlete presumes, not only a waste…

— Thorstein Veblen

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by…

— Thorstein Veblen

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work…

— David Riesman

“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults are not…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

— Clive Bell

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

— Eric Jay Beck

“I aspire to be of the leisure class, therefore, I go to class. Because I am of the working class, needs must, I teach…

— M. Alexander Shipley