Quotes with class-typing

Quotes 161 till 180 of 231.

  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Kingsley The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • 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.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • C. L. R. James The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Arianna Huffington The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Gerald Early The Miss America contest is the 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
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Aristotle The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Beth Henley The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • C. L. R. James The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
    The Black Jacobins pp. 283.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bill Goldberg The Rock has definitely set the bar. He's in a class by himself, and he always will be, I believe.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption - pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Lippmann 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
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Carter G. Woodson 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.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Aberjhani The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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