Class Quotes

• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  

  Anand Neelakantan
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Middle

• A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

  

  William Sansom
  • Knows
  • Instruments
  • Symbols

• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Up
  • Country
  • Brotherhood

• There are Writers, of a Class indeed very different from that of James Bernoulli, who insinuate as if the Doctrine of Probabilities could have no place in any serious Enquiry; and that studies of this kind, trivial and easy as they be, rather disqualify a man for reasoning on every other subject. Let the Reader chuse.

  

  Abraham de Moivre
  • Class
  • Writers
  • Reader

• The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Class
  • Citizens
  • Composites

• Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

  

  Carl I. Hagen
  • Growing
  • Suffering
  • Politician

• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Social
  • Crush
  • Burden

• Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL.

  

  Cardale Jones
  • Why
  • Play
  • Football

• The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a fever pitch among leftists and homosexual activists, and they need to be stopped before they get carried away in their zeal and do bodily harm to someone. Once again we must remind them our Constitution says, 'freedom of religion' and not 'freedom from religion.'

  

  E.W. Jackson
  • Christian
  • Needs
  • Class

• In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Society
  • Water

• The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Government
  • Scale
  • Robbery

• There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Organization
  • Interest
  • Conditions

• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Born
  • Parent
  • Movement

• I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Use
  • Class
  • Aspect

• Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act is with food that is fresh and local...The class code of the upper-middle class literally links morality and political virtue with certain forms of high-intensity food-preparation activities.

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Way
  • Food
  • Activities

• We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

  

  Norm Coleman
  • Growing
  • Jobs
  • Warfare

• And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Ideas

• A second-class is a first-class mistake.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Effort
  • Mistake
  • Firsts

• I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.

  

  Melvyn Bragg
  • Being
  • Including
  • Mocked

• When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.

  

  David Lovering Pixies
  • Party
  • Magic
  • Class

• On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Organization
  • Conscious
  • Mass

• I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

  

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones
  • Care
  • Loyalty
  • Class

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Technology
  • Accepting
  • Bottom

• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Together
  • Chance
  • Nations

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