Quotes about class
class next levels
I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level. Rashida Jones
class use genius
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated. Thomas Jefferson
class two citizens
The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.
class people wish
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
class trying spinning
I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week. Robert Herjavec
class roots order
At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins. Robert Hilburn
class height exceptional
You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights. Rick Perry
class britain
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society. Robert Reich
class america long
The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.
class poor middle
Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor
class debt enough
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.
class working-class lad
I'm a working class lad. Rob James-Collier
class uprising criticism
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. Richard Hofstadter
class san-francisco saving
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. Robert Louis Stevenson
class america people
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader. Washington Irving
class people church
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance. Walter Lippmann
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.
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 bored may
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. Winston Churchill
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 facts elements
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. William Whewell
class political example
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically. William J. Clinton
class firsts doe
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else. William James
classic-films legacy interest
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy. William Friedkin