Quotes about class
class literature politics
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain
class weight facts
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value. Paul Fussell
class america tvs
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
class ifs corsets
If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it! Patrick Rothfuss
class america russia
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America. Lillian Hellman
class royal wealth
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
class luxury people
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
class organization ideas
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition. Leon Jouhaux
class progress social
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
class division-of-labor leader
Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment. Leon Trotsky
class community democracy
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 basic uniformity of interest throughout. Learned Hand
class knowing people
Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story. Lauren Myracle
class may demon
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings. L. Frank Baum
class-distinction picks
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. Pablo Picasso
class world england
In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world. Paul Merson
class rich working-class
Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich. Paul Merton
class criminals policemen
The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them... Oscar Wilde
class tragedy trouble
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
class frequency hands large lecture move particular poll radio raise remaining response speak students system time understand unwilling using whether
For the first time I am using a radio frequency response system where I can poll the class electronically during my lecture to see if they understand my teaching, whether I should move on, or if I need to rephrase a particular concept. Many students are unwilling to raise their hands during a large lecture; this system allows them to speak up while remaining anonymous.
classical-music ability
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. Itzhak Perlman
class ideas race
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution. Isaiah Berlin
class students
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. Imogen Cunningham
class world want
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to. Imtiaz Ali
class important dresses
It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass. Imelda Marcos
class support fantasy
That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them. Gloria Steinem
class ideas racist
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
class pay united-states
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
class planning-ahead goal
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
class hypocrisy competition
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. J. K. Rowling
class missing werewolf
He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!
class dying looks
I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!
classroom monopoly worldview
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. Nancy Pearcey
class personality alabama
I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality. Katherine Webb