
Top 26 Class Divide Quotes
#1. I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.
Denise Mina
#2. In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
Henry Louis Gates
#3. Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
Brendan Gleeson
#4. There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.
Darryl Pinckney
#5. I am a weapon of massive consumption
Lily Allen
#6. [On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is.
Anne, Princess Royal
#7. You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.
J.K. Rowling
#8. P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty
Ivan Illich
#9. I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#10. I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.
Cristie Kerr
#11. I've been doing a lot of drugs in the last few weeks and drinking less, and I feel much better.
Doug Stanhope
#12. Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.
Northrop Frye
#14. Treat others with respect. How you treat others will be how they treat you.
Gautama Buddha
#15. It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#16. No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.
Damon Galgut
#17. Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.
Jonathan Alter
#18. They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown
#20. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Thomas Aquinas
#21. We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.
Susan Douglas
#22. If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day ... the here, the now.
Simone Elkeles
#23. On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think ... of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.
Flannery O'Connor
#25. There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.
Megan Smith
#26. A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
James Wolcott
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