Quotes About Class

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Freedom for the working class!

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom

A zooology teacher asks the class 'What is the one animal in the jungle that a lion is afraid of?' The class answers: a lioness.

In school I was never the class clown, but more the class trapeze artist. I was always being suspended.

La verdadera división de las clases sociales habría que hacerla teniendo en cuenta la hora en que cada uno se tira de la cama

his conscience was at war with all his aristocratic upbringing. Gentlemen never apologized.

And what defines true elegance?' she asked wryly as they crossed the wide, empty, cobbled streets. 'Dressing with care.' 'Is that all?' 'Far from it. But that is the essence.

The Ritz is a place where two hundred poor devils work themselves to death in order that two hundred lucky devils can live in luxury.

The great hope of the Tet Offensive was that its very size and daring would trigger a surge of nationalism that would transcend barriers of ideology, class, and faith.

If classes were 'sorta boring,' was it because of the student or the teacher?

They couldn't understand that the left and right were never a threat anyway; that the worst thing is a sanitized society ruled by the middle class. The working class and the real upper class have a lot in common. They know where they're from, they like a drink, have a sense of humour. It's the middle you need to look out for.

An economic order rooted in a system of production that tolerates and depends upon hierarches of class and race will have to devise systems of control and punishment to deal with social dynamite. This need to control yields the kind of policing, imprisoning, and executing we see today in the political theatrics of state terror, both to move aside those seen as "social junk," and to remove and "neutralize" those seen as "social dynamite.

I include as "economically elite" not just the fraction of the one-percent who control the nation's financial portfolio, as it were, those who have the largest incomes and economic power. I include within the culture of the economic elite those other groups who live dependent upon, or in proximity to, this largely white overclass.

In fact, within Python, instance and class objects are mostly just dictionaries with links between them.

Although we could implement all class behavior as method functions, operator overloading lets objects be more tightly integrated with Python's object model.

Every time you use an expression of the form object.attr where object is an instance or class object, Python searches the namespace tree from bottom to top, beginning with object, looking for the first attr it can find.

operator overloading — coding methods in a class that intercept and process built-in operations when run on the class's instances.

but slots — and other "virtual" attributes — won't be reported as instance data.

In fact, type itself derives from object, and object derives from type, even though the two are different objects — a circular relationship that caps the object model and stems from the fact that types are classes that generate classes:

A better and less commonly used solution would be to use two underscores at the front of the method name only: __gatherAttrs for us. Python automatically expands such names to include the enclosing class's name, which makes them truly unique when looked up by the inheritance search. This is a feature usually called pseudoprivate class attributes, which we'll expand on in Chapter 31 and deploy in an expanded version of this class there.