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Quotes About Classes

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
~ Ernest Becker
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
~ Vladimir Lenin
A Nigerian librarian told me that her library offers art and entrepreneurship training classes
~ Susan Orlean
If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.
~ Robert Sternberg
envy is something you are more likely to encounter in your own kin: lower classes are more likely to experience envy toward their cousins or the middle class than toward the very rich.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Indian insistence on personal liberty was accompanied by an equal insistence on social equality. Northeastern Indians were appalled by the European propensity to divide themselves into social classes, with those on the lower rungs of the hierarchy compelled to defer to those on the upper.
~ Charles C. Mann
The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
~ Leon Jouhaux
But he would only spend it on drink! You know what the working classes are!' 'Indeed, ma'am, and why should he not spend it on drink? Would you deprive the poor, whose lives are bad and miserable and comfortless enough, of the solace of a little relief from grinding poverty?
~ Kerry Greenwood
There is an entire industry aimed at offering you classes or courses that supposedly give you spiritual or psychic abilities or raise your consciousness to a supranormal level.
~ Kim Michaels
I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.
~ Cassandra Clare
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
~ George Orwell
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.
~ George Santayana
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.
~ Plato
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found / Among the most ruthlessly exploited classes:
~ Jack Kerouac
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
~ Thomas Paine
I managed to do some classes in Ukraine but people there didn't really speak English. They spoke Russian so that's what I learned there.
~ Fred
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
~ Matt Mullenweg
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
~ Larry David
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
~ Taylor Momsen
Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.
~ Giraldus Cambrensis
Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
~ Howard Coble
Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.
~ Homaro Cantu
I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.
~ Michael Moore