Quotes About Class

Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class

I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.

In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

All POOR wish to become RICH, BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.

You sound like a college freshman taking his first philosophy class way too seriously, but that's good.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.