Quotes with upper-class

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  • Friedrich Engels By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Ann Landers Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • 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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  • William F. Buckley Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
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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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