Class Quotes
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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
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My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
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We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
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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.
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We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
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Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
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Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
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I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.
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He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
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There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
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What does Arsenal mean? It means class. The structure of the Club, everything has a classy feel about it. It isn't always about success, there is more than that and this is what makes it a cut above the rest.
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Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
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The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.
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When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
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I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.
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Most of the time in February, everybody thinks they have the best class they've ever had. But we won't know until we get them here in August and see them. Certainly the way they rank them and the way we feel about them, it's our best class top to bottom. But that's always yet to be seen.
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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.
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One big difference I’ve noticed is how class is experienced in both places. Even though America is so class-stratified, the idea that there is a national culture that transcends class is really present. In Iran, despite the revolution and its attempt to eliminate class as a category, there’s now political class. That’s different than social class, but it’s still very much infused with the nuance that comes from a class-stratified place.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and Robert von Neumann would wander around and he'd come up behind someone and say, "Well, what are you trying to do?" And if you told him what you were trying to do, he would then proceed to discuss this with you and suggest things that you might look at and ways in which you could improve what you were attempting to do, etc - never worked on your painting, never touched your painting but talked extensively about what you were trying to do.
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
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Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
