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Quotes About Class

Most of his time appeared to be spent bumming cigarettes from people whose annual income was about a fifth of his own.
~ Laurie Colwin
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
The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
He is hunched over a spinning pot, his hands muddy red. "Welcome to the only class that will teach you how to survive," he says. "Welcome to Art.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
No wonder the zombies were crazy. They thought they were supposed to practice breeding before they learned how to do their own laundry. They talked about it, thought about it, maybe did it, all while going through the motions of attending class and learning stuff so that they could go forth and become productive adults. Whatever that was supposed to mean.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
David's tape recorder is allowed in the class to document potential future violations. The secretary doesn't sound too upset at the idea that Mr. Neck could get canned. I bet she knows him personally.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The bell rings. Hairwoman blocks the door to give out our assignment. A five-?hundred-?word essay on symbolism, how to find hidden meanings in Hawthorne. The whole class yells at Rachel/Rachelle in the hall. That's what you get for speaking up.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
~ Daniel Craig
I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass
~ August Strindberg
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
~ W. H. Auden
It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.
~ Margaret Mead
If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
~ James Connolly
I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.
~ Ice Cube
The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.
~ Maria Montessori
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
~ Vladimir Lenin
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.
~ John C. Calhoun
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
~ Thomas Sowell