Quotes About Class

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

I have a lot of respect for coach D'Antoni. He's one of the really class acts in this league who is willing to share. He's really impacted this league in a big way.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

There was an improv class in our high school, and we all ended up taking it and loving it. Then we just started our own thing.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room.

Think of your project as "one of those," gather data, and learn from all the experience those numbers represent by making reference-class forecasts. Use the same focus to spot and mitigate risks. Switching the focus from your project to the class your project belongs to will lead, paradoxically, to a more accurate understanding of your project.

See your project as one in a class of similar projects already done, as "one of those." Use data from that class—about cost, time, benefits, or whatever else you want to forecast—as your anchor. Then adjust up or down, if necessary, to reflect how your specific project differs from the mean in the class. That's it.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

This is not a military war in the old sense. It is not even a political war. What we're facing here is a social war, a class war. As long as we don't destroy the mandarin class, abolish excessive tenancy rates and do fail to give every farmer his own plot of land, this country'll go Communist as soon as we turn our backs.

The rich and large corporations get richer, the CEOs earn huge compensation packages, and when things get bad, don't worry; Uncle Sam and the American taxpayers are here to bail you out. But when you are in trouble, well, we just can't afford to help you, if you are in the working class or middle class of this country.

Let's be clear. The debate over health care in this country is not a debate about medical treatment or the best way to prevent disease. It is a debate about economics and class politics. Either we maintain a profit-driven health care system whose main function is to enrich certain individuals and institutions, or we develop a nonprofit, cost-effective system that provides quality health care for all people as a right of citizenship.

The very existence of a rapidly expanding billionaire class in the United States is a manifestation of an unjust system that promotes massive income and wealth inequality.

Reicher Mann und armer Mann standen da und sah'n sich an. Und der arme sagte bleich, wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.

Givola: Why you doing this, boss? Just for the swells at the Trust? Ui: On the contrary. This is for the little guy. Why do you think that Trust man, Clark, Always looks so impressive? Not for his own kind, that's for sure. His bank account takes care of them ­ Just like I rely on my brave boys to make sure I get respect. Clark puffs himself up to impress the little man. And so will I.

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty.

They'd also considered themselves distinct enough from the rest of the Blacks in the country to have met with Lincoln during the war in an effort to have themselves declared a separate class and thus eligible for the rights inherent in such a designation, but the effort had failed.

Hey, Holly, Well, how do you feel about writing to a bald guy? Seriously, I did it. I shaved my head! Most all the guys in Mr. Fremont's class did, too. It's weird what some people will do to encourage a friend.

For girls of our class, only a convent-school education would do. This meant that until we reached the age of marital consent, we could be certified (of course) as virgins, but also as never having occupied unchaperoned confined space of any kind with a boy of our own age who was not a close relative.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.