300 Quotes on Class

• In a world full of Kardashians, be an Audrey Hepburn

  Author: John Smith

• You don't need a silver fork to prove you were born with an impeccable hand for stakes,

  Author: Leah Finnie

• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

• My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

• These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman.

  Author: Kevin Williamson

• Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

  Author: George Will

• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• I class myself as a manual laborer.

  Author: Theodore White

• The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

  Author: William Whewell

• I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

  Author: Timothy West

• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  Author: Orson Welles

• We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

  Author: Robert Welch

• At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Author: Len Wein

• Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

  Author: Shane Warne

• As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

  Author: Rick Wakeman

• No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

  Author: Voltaire

• I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

  Author: Jon Voight

• Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

  Author: Giambattista Vico

• And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

  Author: Mark Twain

• There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

  Author: Mark Twain

• You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

  Author: Lionel Trilling

• I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  Author: Pete Townshend

• I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

  Author: Carrot Top

• Money doesn't buy class.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Author: Sachin Tendulkar

• In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

  Author: Major Taylor

• In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

  Author: Frederick Taylor

• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

  Author: John Sweeney

• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  Author: William Sumner

• Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

  Author: Bjarne Stroustrup

• As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

  Author: Sting

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  Author: R. Stine

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

  Author: Elizabeth Stanton

• The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

  Author: Steve Spurrier

• Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

  Author: Roger Spottiswoode

• Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

  Author: Anna Spencer

• I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

  Author: Timothy Spall

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

  Author: Robert Smith

• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  Author: Martin Smith

• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

  Author: Martin Smith

• There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

  Author: Ed Smith

• I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

  Author: Chad Smith

• For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

  Author: James Sinegal

• One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

  Author: James Sinegal

• You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

  Author: James Sinegal

• In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

  Author: William Sherman

• A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

  Author: George Shaw

• Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting President. And in a good way - not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly. He's not the student who wears a button that says, 'Smartest kid in class,' but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps.

  Author: Tom Shale

• Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

  Author: Ernest Shackleton

• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  Author: John Sexton

• There are only two classes - first class and no class.

  Author: David Selznick

• We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

  Author: Tony Scott

• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Author: Jill Scott

• Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.

  Author: Elizabeth Schwartz

• Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

  Author: Budd Schulberg

• The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

  Author: Terry Savage

• The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.

  Author: Thomas Sargent

• Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

  Author: Frederick Sanger

• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

  Author: George Sanders

• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  Author: Harrison Salisbury

• Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

  Author: George Saintsbury

• There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.

  Author: Bob Saget

• Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

  Author: Paul Ryan

• I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Author: Rita Rudner

• Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

  Author: Dave Ronk

• 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 didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

  Author: Kid Rock

• If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

  Author: Frank Robinson

• In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

  Author: Sally Ride

• I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

  Author: Ellen Richards

• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  Author: Beah Richards

• 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

• My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

  Author: Satyajit Ray

• I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

  Author: Simon Raven

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

  Author: A. Randolph

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

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.

  Author: Sellapan Ramanathan

• 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

• 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 Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  Author: Karl Radek

• It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

  Author: Sally Quinn

• Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

  Author: Mark Poster

• 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

• At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

  Author: John Pople

• Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

  Author: Pete Pont

• There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

  Author: Pete Pont

• 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

• My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

  Author: Sidney Poitier

• Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

  Author: Amy Poehler

• I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

  Author: Amy Poehler

• Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

  Author: John Podesta

• The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

  Author: Andrei Platonov

• 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

• 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

• Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

  Author: Anne Perry

• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

  Author: Martin Perl

• 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 couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

  Author: Satchel Paige

• I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

  Author: Adnan Pachachi

• 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

• Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

  Author: George Orwell

• 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 grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

  Author: George Olah

• 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 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 am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

  Author: Kristi Noem

• We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.

  Author: Kristi Noem

• I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

  Author: Robert Niro

• 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

• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• 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

• For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

  Author: Howard Nemerov

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Constance Motley

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

  Author: Constance Motley

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

  Author: Constance Motley

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

  Author: Johann Most

• Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

  Author: Edwin Moses

• Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

  Author: Dick Morris

• I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

  Author: Jerry Moran

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

  Author: Esai Morales

• I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

  Author: Dudley Moore

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

  Author: Dominic Monaghan

• I was always the class clown.

  Author: Kel Mitchell

• Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

  Author: Spike Milligan

• I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

  Author: Rebecca Miller

• I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

  Author: Merton Miller

• President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

  Author: George Miller

• 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

• Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

  Author: Ed Miliband

• The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• 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

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

  Author: Al McGuire

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

  Author: Martin McGuinness

• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

  Author: John McGahern

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

  Author: Bruce McCulloch

• I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.

  Author: Scotty McCreery

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

  Author: Willie Mays

• In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

  Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto

• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  Author: Karl Marx

• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  Author: Karl Marx

• 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

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  Author: Karl Marx

• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  Author: Harriet Martineau

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

  Author: Harriet Martineau

• 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

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

  Author: Judith Martin

• It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

  Author: Rudolph Marcus

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

  Author: Joe Mantegna

• 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

• On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

  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

• 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

• There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

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

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• 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

• I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

  Author: Jena Malone

• 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

• Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

  Author: Norman Mailer

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

  Author: Bill Maher

• The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

  Author: James Madison

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

  Author: John Madden

• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• 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

• The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

  Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

• I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

  Author: William Lyons

• 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

• I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

  Author: Brian Lumley

• The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• Dinah had all the class.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

  Author: Lance Loud

• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Author: Lavrenti Lopes

• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

  Author: Jack London

• 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

• 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

• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• 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

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

  Author: Maya Lin

• 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

• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

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

  Author: Sinclair Lewis

• 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

• When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

• Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

  Author: Lisa Leslie

• Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

  Author: Phil Lesh

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

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• 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

• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

  Author: Abe Lemons

• The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

  Author: Stephen Leacock

• You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

  Author: Nicholas Lea

• I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

  Author: Jude Law

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

  Author: Christine Lavin

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

  Author: Christine Lavin

• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Author: Ralph Lauren

• Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

  Author: James Larkin

• The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

  Author: James Larkin

• Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

  Author: Franklin Lane

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

  Author: Burt Lancaster

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  Author: R. Laing

• I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

  Author: Christian Lacroix

• Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.

  Author: Shia LaBeouf

• Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

  Author: Swoosie Kurtz

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Author: C. Koop

• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  Author: Walter Kohn

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

  Author: William Knowles

• Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

  Author: Beyonce Knowles

• 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

• I was a class clown.

  Author: Robert Klein

• My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

  Author: Robert Klein

• A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

  Author: Greg Kinnear

• The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

  Author: Ben Kingsley

• Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

  Author: Peter King

• 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

• However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

  Author: Jahangir Khan

• At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

  Author: Imran Khan

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