Quotes on Class

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Author: Dorothy Allison

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Author: Dorothy Allison

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Author: B. Ambedkar

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Author: W. Auden

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.

Author: David Axelrod

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Author: Arthur Balfour

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

Author: Lynda Barry

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

Author: Lynda Barry

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Author: Louise Bogan

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

Author: Billy Bragg

The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.

Author: Carol Braun

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

Author: Chester Brown

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Author: H. Brown

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Author: H. Brown

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Author: H. Brown

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

Author: Solomon Burke

We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat.

Author: Max Burns

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Author: Michael Caine

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

Author: Jim Carrey

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Author: Raymond Chandler

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

Author: Margaret Cho

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.

Author: Nick Clooney

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

Author: William Cobbett

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

Author: David Coe

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Author: Juan Cole

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

Author: David Coleman

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.

Author: James Collins

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

Author: Phil Collins

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Author: Pierre Coubertin

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

Author: Jim Cramer

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

Author: Francis Crick

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Author: Stanley Crouch

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

Author: Siobhan Davies

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Author: Alexandre Dumas

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

Author: Faye Dunaway

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

Author: Alan Dundes

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

Author: Andrea Dworkin

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Author: Roger Ebert

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Author: Maria Edgeworth

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

Author: Bob Edwards

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Author: Rahm Emanuel

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Author: Friedrich Engels

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Author: Paul Farmer

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

Author: Dave Foley

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Author: Susan George

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

Author: Alexi Giannoulias

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

Author: Herman Gorter

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

Author: Herman Gorter

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

Author: Asa Gray

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

Author: David Guterson

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

Author: Scott Hamilton

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

Author: John Harlan

I'm painfully middle class.

Author: Valerie Harper

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

Author: Neil Harris

Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.

Author: Phil Hartman

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

Author: Mariel Hemingway

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Author: James Hillman

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

Author: Larry Holmes

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Author: Lena Horne

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

Author: John Hume

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

Author: Kim Il

I'm only going to be running the Pro Class this season, that way I can focus on the Pro Championship.

Author: Ben Jackson

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Author: C. James

I really wasn't a class clown.

Author: Kevin James

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Author: Kevin James

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Author: Roy Jenkins

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Author: Mary Jones

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

Author: Marcy Kaptur

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

Author: Sally Kellerman

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

Author: Fanny Kemble

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

Author: John Kerry

I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

Author: Greg Kinnear

I was a class clown.

Author: Robert Klein

I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it.

Author: Ron Klein

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

Author: William Knowles

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

Author: C. Koop

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

Author: Wayne Kramer

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Author: Christian Lacroix

I walked out of class one day and I never went back.

Author: Burt Lancaster

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

Author: Rick Larsen

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

Author: Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Author: Christine Lavin

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Author: Daniel Leon

Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

Author: Sugar Leonard

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Author: Al Lewis

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Author: Sinclair Lewis

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

Author: Karl Liebknecht

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

Author: Maya Lin

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

Author: Maya Lin

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Author: Walter Lippmann

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

Author: James Lipton

Dinah had all the class.

Author: Lorna Luft

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Author: Rosa Luxemburg

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

Author: John Madden

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

Author: Bill Maher

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Author: Norman Mailer

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

Author: Henry Maine

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Author: Leonard Maltin

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Author: Ernest Mandel

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Author: Ernest Mandel

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Author: Ernest Mandel

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

Author: Ernest Mandel

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

Author: Joe Mantegna

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Author: Judith Martin

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

Author: Ross Martin

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Author: Harriet Martineau

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Author: Karl Marx

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

Author: Willie Mays

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

Author: Bruce McCulloch

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

Author: Martin McGuinness

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

Author: Al McGuire

Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

Author: Jim McKay

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Author: Ed Miliband

I was always the class clown.

Author: Kel Mitchell

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

Author: Dominic Monaghan

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Author: Esai Morales

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

Author: Edwin Moses

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Author: Johann Most

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Author: Constance Motley

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Author: Constance Motley

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Author: Constance Motley

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

Author: Alison Moyet

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

Author: Bebe Neuwirth

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Author: Jack Nicholson

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Author: Barack Obama

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Author: Barack Obama

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Author: George Orwell

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

Author: Peter O'Toole

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

Author: James Payn

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Author: Martin Perl

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

Author: Rick Perry

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Author: Pablo Picasso

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

Author: John Polkinghorne

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.

Author: Jon Postel

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

Author: Karl Radek

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

Author: Ramakrishna

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Author: Ayn Rand

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

Author: A. Randolph

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

Author: David Ricardo

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Author: Dennis Rodman

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

Author: David Russell