Top 100 Quotes About Class
#2. Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.
Alexi Giannoulias
#3. I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.
Megyn Kelly
#4. Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
Elizabeth Janeway
#5. I gotta hand it to ya, Tristan. You may be a world-class fuckup with what you done to Lisa, but you got taste, man. You got good taste.
A. Violet End
#6. I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class.
Thomas S. Monson
#7. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.
Walter Rodney
#8. In America, tribalism is alive and well. There are four kinds - class, ideology, region, and race. First, class. Pretty easy. Rich folk and poor folk. Second, ideology. Liberals and conservatives. They don't merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#9. The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.
Richard Corliss
#10. As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.
Steven F. Hayward
#11. The class president was... getting a different kind of rush hour squeeze.
Monchi Kaori
#12. Like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.
Janet Fitch
#13. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden
#14. I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
Jennifer Hale
#15. I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe
#16. The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights.
Russell Kirk
#17. My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
Peter Capaldi
#18. People who come first in class never get good marks in the report card of Life. After all who asks you your CGPA on your last day?
Laksh Kishore
#19. First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.
Chris Prentiss
#20. Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.
Achille Mbembe
#21. Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.
Richard Florida
#22. Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.
Aristotle.
#23. Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.
Wolfe Tone
#24. I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
Betty Buckley
#25. Lee explained to her that art for art's sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can't be living a life driven by need and desire.
Nell Zink
#26. Status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
Mohsin Hamid
#27. But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
Jim McDermott
#28. By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!
Cheech Marin
#29. After class, it was Ash who had initiated things. He had a radiant smile that spoke to her heart in a way no one ever had, and she thought, This must be what love feels like.
Vrinda Pendred
#30. Merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.
Charles R. Morris
#31. If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.
Lady Violet
#32. Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
Dan Harmon
#33. If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
Calvin Trillin
#34. When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#35. Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.
Mortimer Adler
#36. I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.
Brendan Rodgers
#37. Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course ... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.
Steve Coogan
#38. I had no one else to call. Nobody needed me. I had constructed my life to make certain of it. I'd remained aloof in acting class, been too cool to give my phone number to people I met on the set. I hadn't wanted the complications of being nice.
Petrea Burchard
#39. We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.
N. Robert Hammer
#40. Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.
Gabrielle Dennis
#41. I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.
Jools Holland
#42. I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
Damian Woetzel
#43. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.
Annie Barrows
#44. If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and ... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do ... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.
Emmett Shear
#47. I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.
Lilla Crawford
#48. I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
Gillian Jacobs
#49. I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.
Libba Bray
#50. The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country, creed or class. It represents a world where people come together across boundaries, for causes and concerns that unite the planet.
Narendra Modi
#51. I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
Giada De Laurentiis
#52. At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.
Elaine Pagels
#53. MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?
ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.
MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?
ME: MATH.
KanyaACoffman
#54. Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow's sobriety.
Bauvard
#55. I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
Jilly Cooper
#56. 'Suits' fans. I've never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It's incredible. People who are high-powered lawyers to doormen. A Chinese immigrant cable installer - who barely spoke English - loves 'Suits!'
David Costabile
#57. The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.
B.C. Forbes
#58. It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
Barbara Kruger
#59. How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?
M.B. Dallocchio
#60. In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
Jon Postel
#61. If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
Vladimir Lenin
#62. If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
C. Everett Koop
#63. Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Clive Bell
#64. Thierry Henry is a fantastic professional and will be massive here in New York, i'm sure, he is world class
Harry Redknapp
#65. You will marry me. We will be together. I will not discuss this again." His dark eyes turned into bottomless, black pits. "Capisce?" he growled. Barbarian. Or, is he a medieval bastard? Dammit why didn't I pay closer attention to time periods in history class?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#66. Eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.
Evan D.G. Fraser
#67. The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.
Elmer Eric Schattschneider
#68. I decided that if I want to write about a female hero in the 1920s, I'm going to have to give her all the advantages I can because she has serious disadvantages in being a woman. I wasn't going to have her cowed or overawed by class, so she had to be titled.
Kerry Greenwood
#69. People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.
Tom Kenny
#70. There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States.
Elliott Abrams
#71. My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
Thomas Piketty
#72. I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.
Chic Murray
#73. In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
Peter Drucker
#74. Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
#75. I'm not working class anymore,' he said. 'I'm lower-middle. I use three types of oil in my kitchen. Admittedly one of them is WD-40, but that counts, doesn't it?
Christopher Fowler
#76. In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
Angela Ahrendts
#77. Surely I missed the Bloodsucking Your Client class in law school, since all evidence points to me being the poster boy for Financially Ruined Defense Attorneys.
Jodi Picoult
#78. I have a class in Hermosa Beach that starts at eight, but ...
I wanted to offer to pick up her car, drive her back to Hermosa Beach, take her to the moon.
Carolee Dean
#79. Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Chuck Schumer
#80. I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
Per Petterson
#81. Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
Rand Paul
#82. I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
Jacki Weaver
#83. If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy.
Tony Judt
#84. The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.
Jeanine Basinger
#85. The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
Timothy Ferriss
#86. Every dependency is like a little dot of glue that causes your class to stick to the things it touches.
Sandi Metz
#87. My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.
Chelan Simmons
#88. Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions.
Philip Yancey
#89. I don't know what I saw. It could've been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue."
"You've never sniffed glue!"
"I've smelled glue," Jamie said after a pause. "In art class.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#90. At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.
Gilbert Highet
#91. I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.
Per Petterson
#92. Johnny-boy shook his head. Maybe he thought I wanted him to drink from the bottle. Hell, I have more class than that. There are paper cups over by the water cooler.
Dan Simmons
#93. Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
Joss Whedon
#94. I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.
Eugene O'Neill
#95. You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#96. She believed that, in an ideal world, the working class would rule the country, but she had no particular desire to ask any of them to tea.
John Mortimer
#97. When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.
Rich Hall
#98. We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?
John Blacking
#99. He's always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn't work.
Ida Lokas
#100. Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.
Method Man
