Class Analysis Quotes

#1. 'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

Cindy Sheehan

#2. Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.

Erik Olin Wright

#3. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breath fire, too.

Rick Riordan

#4. ... but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?

Yukio Mishima

#5. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein

#6. Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

Gillo Dorfles

#7. She couldn't help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how - even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

Tamera Alexander

#8. The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework of the worldwide class struggle.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#9. The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

Tim LaHaye

#10. If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

Christie Watson

#11. Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

Judith Butler

#12. Teens' use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey's Analysis of a Teenager's View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

Danah Boyd

#13. Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.

Jo Walton

#14. By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

John Cleese

#15. As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.

Alejandro Portes

#16. To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.

Lisa See

#17. Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.

Gustave Le Bon

#18. I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

Adam Carolla

#19. Bitch."
"Slut."
"Whore."
"Cunt."
I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt.

Janet Evanovich

#20. What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

Hilary Swank

#21. I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

Alexei Navalny

#22. It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

Clarence Darrow

#23. Upstairs on a bus! It's Unbelievable

Diane Samuels

#24. Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

Samuel Rogers