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Quotes About Class

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
~ Mark Twain
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
~ Susan Cain
The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.
~ Michael Marmot
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.
~ Friedrich Engels
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
~ David Wojnarowicz
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
~ Joseph Stalin
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.
~ Niall Ferguson
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.
~ Michelle Alexander
History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
~ Calvin Coolidge
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
~ Karl Marx
Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat in the back.
~ Mike G
I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.
~ Molly Quinn
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.
~ Kinky Friedman
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
~ Carrot Top
The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.
~ Noel Coward
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
~ Malcolm X