Mrs Birling Class Quotes

Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges. ~ J.B. Priestley

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

There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class. ~ David O. Selznick

Implement "is a" through public inheritance. When a programmer decides to create a new class by inheriting from an existing class, that programmer is saying that the new class "is a" more specialized version of the older class. The base class sets expectations about how the derived class will operate and imposes constraints on how the derived class can operate (Meyers 1998). ~ Steve McConnell

there are four standard cabins: first class, business class, economy class, and Ryanair. ~ Patrick Smith

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

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

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. ~ Ed Miliband

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class. ~ Ray Floyd

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. ~ Jarvis Cocker

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. ~ John Prescott

The working class who fight the battles, the working class who make the sacrifices, the working class who shed the blood, the working class who furnish the corpses, the working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war. ~ Eugene V. Debs

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

A socialist must be 'class-conscious', recognizing his identity as a member of the working class and understanding his interests as permanently against those of the master class. ~ Robert Barltrop

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

There are only two classes - first class and no class. ~ David O. Selznick

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. ~ H. Rap Brown

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. ~ Marvin L. Cohen

Everyone has class, one class or another. ~ Francesca Annis

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be "reached out to" in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity. ~ Irena Klepfisz

The radical implication of the expansion of higher education has been disguised by a myth which dubs all educated working class people as middle class. By definition working class people are not intelligent, so if you've got a degree you must be middle class. This nonsense is reinforced by the fact that acedemic traditions are laden with class assumptions and are presented in upper class styles even in the Polytechnics. ~ Stefan Szczelkun

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident. ~ Paul Feig

Art class was my thing, but not any other class. ~ Dan Colen

Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return. ~ David J. Schwartz

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. ~ Gerald Brenan

Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking. ~ Shane Perry

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way ~ David Ogilvy

Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority. ~ Jack London

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

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

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers. ~ Scott Walker

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class. ~ Grace Paley

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door. ~ Mike Gorman

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

Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to. ~ Dov Davidoff

First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader. ~ Carsten K. Rath

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ~ Aristotle.

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

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. ~ Narendra Modi

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been. ~ George Carlin

I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me. ~ Bradford Winters

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? ~ Vladimir Lenin

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice. ~ Martha Graham

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. ~ Dwight Morrow

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on. ~ Noam Chomsky

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. ~ Elia Kazan

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

There is no alternative to class struggle. ~ Vyacheslav Molotov

In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon. ~ Friedrich Engels

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. ~ Clara Zetkin

Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods. ~ Carol Browner

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown. ~ R.L. Stine

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. ~ Holly Near

There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS. ~ Timothy Noah

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. ~ Ernest Mandel

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

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. ~ Alexandre Dumas

What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved. ~ Frank Abagnale

I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work. ~ Heather Chapple

A working class hero is something to be. ~ John Lennon

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. ~ Tony Benn

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank. ~ Jasper Carrott

Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups. ~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class. ~ Paul Fussell

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me. ~ Graham Norton

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status. ~ Sherrod Brown

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. ~ Gerald Early

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer. ~ Tom Kenny

I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections. ~ Meg Wolitzer

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. ~ Julian Fellowes

Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer. ~ Nur Muhammad Taraki

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. ~ Gina Barreca

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor. ~ Christina Stead

This is not class warfare
it's math. ~ Barack Obama

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class. ~ Lee Kun-hee

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

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

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

Freedom for the working class! ~ Mother Jones

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game. ~ John Lennon

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

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class. ~ Robert Breault

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal. ~ Sylvia Earle

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

Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books to the class, and never bothered about homework. He came to the class, monopolized the last bench, ans slept bravely. No teacher ever tried to prod him. ~ R.K. Narayan

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class. ~ Neil Armstrong

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. ~ Orson Welles

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else? ~ Cal Thomas

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare. ~ Calvin Trillin

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

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours. ~ Paul Keating

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. ~ Betty Smith

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements ~ Emma Goldman

The fundamental issue was the class struggle...its prosecution remained the vital principle...and even the scurviest expedient was seen in terms of possible gain by the working class from the masters. ~ Robert Barltrop

The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be. ~ W.E.B. Du Bois

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class. ~ Jim Shepard