Quotes with classes

  • The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
  • There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
  • Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
  • No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
  • One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Franklin All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Benito Mussolini We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
    In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Noam Chomsky After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John Ruskin All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
    Sesame and lilies
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Brendon Urie All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Busy Philipps Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Brooke Shields At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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