Quotes with upper-class

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  • Andrew Carnegie There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • James Burnham There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
    Source: The Machiavellians p. 280
    James Burnham
    American philosopher and political theorist (1905 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • H. Rap Brown There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • H. Rap Brown They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
    Source: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Halter Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Ronald Laing We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Bev Perdue We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
    Bev Perdue
    American businesswoman and politician (1947 - )
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  • Adolph Green We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
    Dora Russell
     
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  • Barbara Boxer We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Source: Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.
    Source: Principles of Economics (1920) Book V, Ch. III
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