Quotes About Class

This is the fate which awaits many of the middle class and the wage-class. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to serve notice on these thieves, and highway robbers, sitting in high places of "honor" and "trust," that by the eternal god of justice, and by the manhood in you, that you will not, in this land of plenty, allow your children to become the mere hirelings and dependents upon the sweet will of their children?

Give them to understand that you will not stand patiently by and see your hard earnings squandered by a luxuriating class of idlers.

We have laws, jails, courts, armies, guns and armories enough to make saints of us all, if they were the true preventives of crime; but we know they do not prevent crime; that wickedness and depravity exist in spite of them, nay, increase as the struggle between classes grows fiercer, wealth greater and more powerful and poverty more gaunt and desperate.

According to the Marxist conception, one's social condition determines one's way of thought. His membership of a social class decides what views a writer will express.

She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle class values make me sick'.

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

Donald Wryson was a large man with thinning fair hair and the cheerful air of a bully, but he was a bully only in the defense of rectitude, class distinctions, and the orderly appearance of things.

toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

That awkward moment when your teacher says 'Find a partner,' and you have no friends in that class so you're like...

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

That awkward moment when you have no friends in the class and your teacher says 'pair up.'

I hate when professors keep you the entire time on the first day of class. Gimme the syllabus and get me out of here.

I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.