Class Quotes

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, an...

You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways...

Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

...you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for eve...

Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology...

All men are born free: just not for long.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole ti...

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but...

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich,...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "g...

We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respe...

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery;...

She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up fr...

She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr...

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have prov...

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as N...

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even thos...

What is key to America’s understanding of class is the persistent belief — despite all evidence to t...

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and...

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across th...

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were ...

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the admini...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revel...

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have ha...

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leav...

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and requ...

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immo...

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural backgrou...

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the...

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. N...

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, ...

You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly.The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re...

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at ...

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he...

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true ope...

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of cit...

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted...

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and fin...

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person...

Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to ...

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a ve...

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiorit...

Books require titles reading them doesn't

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't...

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society...

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming ...

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which r...

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement i...

Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just sum...

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what ...

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nati...

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to payche...

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree....

Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have h...

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to th...

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be...

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there ...

It [being very rich] used to worry me, and I thought it wrong to have so many beautiful things when ...

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of soc...

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us o...

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the ...

In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orde...

The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of y...

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, rule...

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the c...

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political...

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar