Quotes and Sayings About Class

A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.
-- A. C. Cuza

#Blood #Class #Soul

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
-- A. J. Liebling

#Girl #Running #Class

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
-- A. J. Muste

#Educational #Struggle #Class

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Class #People #Water

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#Race #Class #Justice

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#Race #Class #Salvation

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
-- A. R. Ammons

#Teaching #Reading #Class

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
-- Aaron Carter

#Book #Class #Acting

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
-- Aaron Paul

#Thinking #Class #Play

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-- Aaron Staton

#College #Class #Careers

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
-- Aaron Swartz

#Class #Tools #Lasts

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
-- Abdallah II

#Moving #Years #Class

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
-- Abdallah II

#Thinking #Class #People

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
-- Abraham Hayward

#Nice #Class #Differences

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Hands #Class

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Art #Class #Chinese

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
-- Adam McKay

#Lying #Class #Warfare

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.
-- Adam Parfrey

#Guitar #Class #Space

I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
-- Adnan Pachachi

#Confidence #Thinking #Class

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class
-- Adolf Hitler

#Class #People #Proud

I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.
-- Adrien Broner

#Motivation #Fighting #Class

Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed.
-- Aharon Katzir

#Class #Two #Biologist

The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.
-- Ahmed Toufiq

#Class #Play #Nuclear

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
-- Al Capone

#Class #Racket #Ruling

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
-- Al Franken

#Hard Work #Class #Promise

Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.
-- Al Gore

#Class #Iraq #Government

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Philosophy #Class

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Class #Lessons #Management

Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
-- Alain de Benoist

#Class #Firsts #Immigration

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...
-- Alain de Botton

#Class #Envy #Feelings