Quotes about class
class rich middle
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich. William Julius Wilson
class gaps economic
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.
class politics resentment
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy. William Safire
class citizens composites
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41 William S. Burroughs
class decision congress
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. William J. Brennan
class tasks want
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Woodrow Wilson
class two effort
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one. Winston Churchill
class two people
If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"
class restaurants chains
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants. Will Self
class justice devil
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be. W. E. B. Du Bois
class african-american curiosity
I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor. Zora Neale Hurston
class parent chosen
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer. Zhang Ziyi
class southern slave
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. William H. Seward
class proud meanness
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. William Hazlitt
class lowest
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
class roots kingdoms
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms. William E. Gladstone
class political world
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
class voice tunes
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath. Wendell Pierce
class citizens firsts
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. Wendell Willkie
class answers taught
If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk. Warren Buffett
class organization democracy
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another. Vladimir Lenin
class break made
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
class victory second-amendment
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
class states proletariat
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.
class people political
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. Walter Cronkite
class people degrees
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. William Bligh
class paul-scholes scholes
To me, Paul Scholes was in a class of his own. Wayne Rooney
class trying i-can
I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point. Wale
class categories
Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? Walker Percy
class giving mind
There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one. Samuel Butler
classic film fortunate
I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around. Samuel L. Jackson
class want kind
But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see. Ryan Reynolds
class skills parent
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!