Class Quotes
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Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.
Yair Lapid -
I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.
Becky Lynch
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[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.
Anthony Daniels -
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
Fidel Castro -
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
Garry Winogrand -
I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
Kevin Kline -
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
Imtiaz Ali
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Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
Michelle Williams Destiny's Child -
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
Bill Vaughan -
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
T. S. Eliot -
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin -
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
Paul Keating -
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones
Carleton S. Coon
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card -
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise.
L. Sprague de Camp -
I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.
Ella Baker -
Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.
Lewis Capaldi -
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.
Barack Obama
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I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.
John Stuart Mill -
I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
Andy Rooney -
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol -
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
Jim Thorpe