Class Class Quotes

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class. ~ John Prescott

In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class. ~ Dee Dee Myers

I don't usually fly in first class, but I fart in first class. ~ Demetri Martin

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies. ~ Stephen Daldry

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. ~ Rita Mae Brown

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes. ~ George Hamilton

As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class. ~ Eugene V. Debs

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class. ~ Martha Stewart

I was at the foot of my class. ~ Thomas A. Edison

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

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. ~ Bob Taft

Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class. ~ Ron Paul

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~ John Podhoretz

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class. ~ Mike Leigh

I want to lower taxes for the middle class. ~ Donald Trump

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. ~ Ken Livingstone

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value. ~ Suresh Raina

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. ~ George Bernard Shaw

After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes. ~ Mao Zedong

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. ~ Arianna Huffington

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. ~ George Gilder

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. ~ Al Capone

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. ~ John Hume

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. ~ Theodore C. Sorensen

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass. ~ Imelda Marcos

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. ~ Ernest Mandel

I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right. ~ Scott Aukerman

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters. ~ George Orwell

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class. ~ Emily James Smith Putnam

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. ~ Jane Bryant Quinn

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class. ~ Misty Copeland

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. ~ Richard Russo

I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class. ~ Reggie Lee

I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash. Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first class. ~ Drake

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class. ~ James Cook

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. ~ Rebecca West

At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or withdraws his money from the concern, or sells his mill, to buy an estate in the country, while all the time the weaver, who thinks he and his fellows are the real makers of this wealth, is struggling on for bread for his children, through the vicissitudes of lowered wages, short hours, fewer hands employed, etc. And when he knows trade is bad, and could understand (at least partially) that there are not buyers enough in the market to purchase the goods already made, and consequently that there is no demand for more; when he would bear and endure much without complaining, could he also see that his employers were bearing their share; he is, I say, bewildered and (to use his own word) "aggravated" to see that all goes on just as usual with the millowners. Large houses are still occupied, while spinners' and weavers' cottages stand empty, because the families that once filled them are obliged to live in rooms or cellars. Carriages still roll along the streets, concerts are still crowded by subscribers, the shops for expensive luxuries still find daily customers, while the workman loiters away his unemployed time in watching these things, and thinking of the pale, uncomplaining wife at home, and the wailing children asking in vain for enough of food--of the sinking health, of the dyi ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Drugs and addiction impact all classes, genders, ages, and races. ~ Asa Don Brown

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. ~ Olivier Martinez

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected ... to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class. ~ Carl L. Becker

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. ~ David Frost

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way! ~ Annette Bening

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. ~ David Harvey

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. ~ Aristotle.

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. ~ Andy Stern

I did want to become a novelist, but the program at Waseda was pretty intense in terms of language requirements - two hours of English and four hours of Chinese. I thought, what do I need this for? So I stopped going to class. ~ Hirokazu Koreeda

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time. If there's anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you can't have it." Buy my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I don't need less than a deserving man: I need more. I don't eat less hearty than him; and I drink a lot more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man. I want cheerfulness and a song and a band when I feel low. Well, they charge me just the same for everything as they charge the deserving. What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw

In any government bureaucracy, they are not working for you but for the mythical blob called the 'public sector,' which is really nothing but a stash of stolen cash divided among the robber class. ~ Llewellyn Rockwell

There is only one class of men, the privileged class ~ Albert Camus

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. ~ J. Willard Marriott

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. ~ Joel Kinnaman

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class. ~ Scott Walker

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. ~ Lorraine Toussaint

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. ~ Walter Lippmann

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class. ~ Cory Booker

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class. ~ Edmund A. Opitz

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. ~ Matthew Arnold

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. ~ Peter York

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports ~ Mao Zedong

Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class. ~ Albert J. Nock

Robin Hood was also a terrorist ― but he had some style and a little class. ~ Wilbur Smith

A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects - although this manifestation may for long periods be weak, confused, and subject to manipulation by other classes. ~ Harry Braverman

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class. ~ John C. Maxwell

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class. ~ James Earl Jones

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

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. ~ Doris Lessing

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class. ~ Allison Anders

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class. ~ Chris Lilley

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me.
Not him, just the jacket. ~ Lisa Kleypas

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. ~ Julian Fellowes

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession
a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine. ~ Don Alias

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. ~ Peter O'Toole

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class. ~ Alan Stern

In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future. ~ Deepak Chopra

It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself. ~ Mao Zedong

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves. ~ Joel Stein

I will be the one lifting that trophy, not Paolo Maldini. Imagine me hoisting the trophy. It is an image I have in my mind and I want to make it a reality. We have world-class players and, believe me, they are in the mood to do it. The atmosphere around the club at the moment is just top-class. ~ Steven Gerrard

I don't understand why Universities only offer undergraduate classes during the day when their professional staff should be smart enough to know that a large percentage of their students are non-traditional. ~ Heather Chapple

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life. ~ Anne Hull

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class. ~ Linda McQuaig

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. ~ Maya Lin

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it. ~ Gail Collins

God doesn't want his people to go second-class. ~ Jim Bakker

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class. ~ Marla Gibbs

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class. ~ Katie Melua

You have to put all the criticism of this club down to jealousy. United have produced more players who have played for their country, more world-class players and more players who have won European Footballer of the Year than any other team in this country, so we must be doing something right. ~ Alex Ferguson

the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren't, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class. ~ Charles Murray

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. ~ Larry Elder

I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class. ~ Yaya Han

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. ~ Timothy Noah

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

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. ~ Walter Lippmann

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. ~ Andrea Arnold

I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said [Sherlock] Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP's, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament. ~ Dan Simmons