Class Quotes

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.

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.

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

With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

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.

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.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

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.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

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

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

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.

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

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There's no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

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.

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

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.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

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

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

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