Class Rules Quotes

#1. The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Karl Kautsky

#2. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

John Green

#3. Active Listening provides parents with a way of moving in and offering to help the child define the problem for herself, and starting up the process of problem-solving within the child.

Thomas Gordon

#4. Alexandra took a very different lesson away from class that day: You can break the rules, if you're good enough.

Inverarity

#5. That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

Van Jones

#6. Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

Anne Hull

#7. Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

Spencer Bachus

#8. Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.

Zach Braff

#9. I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class.

Bobby Jindal

#10. The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

Arianna Huffington

#11. The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.

Catherine Asaro

#12. Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Gary Hopkins

#13. Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

Alexander Hanson

#14. Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.

Sabrina Jeffries

#15. When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

Madi Diaz

#16. Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Gordon

#17. Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

Lorne Michaels

#18. The thing about sports, at least for guys, is that nobody ever defines the rules, not even in gym class. Asking what a penalty means is like asking who Jesus was. It's one of those things you're just supposed to know, and if you don't, there's something seriously wrong with you.

David Sedaris

#19. We need to apply the rules of 10,000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert

Sunday Adelaja

#20. Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.

John Trudell

#21. The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

Mason Cooley

#22. There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Samuel Butler

#23. How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged bird, battering its wings against the sides of its golden prison.

Fiona Paul

#24. If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.

Kathleen Rooney

#25. An important consequence of giving highest priority to the metaphor of Moral Strength is that it rules out any explanations in terms of social forces or social class.

George Lakoff

#26. She didn't want anyone reading her impermanent thoughts after she had permanently left the planet.

Wendy Wunder

#27. Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Stephanie Cutter