Quotes about class
class ideas atheism
It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea. Walter Lippmann
class elude public-opinion
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
class diversity support
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
class islands literature
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. William Styron
class jew privileged
I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune. William Joyce
class psychology inquiry
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. Wilhelm Wundt
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