Quotes with class

Quotes 41 till 60 of 229.

  • Giambattista Vico Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup 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.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Beyonce 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.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • A. J. Muste Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
    Source: Some Notes on Workers Education in New International (1935) Vol.2, No.7 p. 225
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Andrea Dworkin Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Ben Elliot Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Camille Paglia For a decade, feminists have drilled their disciples to say, Rape is a crime of violence but not of sex. This sugar-coated Shirley Temple nonsense has exposed young women to disaster. Misled by feminism, they do not expect rape from the nice boys from good homes who sit next to them in class.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Howard Nemerov 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.
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Agnes Smedley 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.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Harriet Martineau 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.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Bev Perdue From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • David Copperfield I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Gore Vidal I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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