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Image of Lynne Tillman
People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.
- Lynne Tillman
Collection: Class
Image of Michael O'Leary
The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!
- Michael O'Leary
Collection: Class
Image of Eve Ensler
Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
- Eve Ensler
Collection: Class
Image of Barbara Ehrenreich
Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Collection: Class
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Class
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Class
Image of Albert Einstein
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Class
Image of Becca Fitzpatrick
Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. "This class isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know." "Vee? As in virgin?" "Not so loud." She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.
- Becca Fitzpatrick
Collection: Class
Image of Dr. Dre
I've got more class than most.
- Dr. Dre
Collection: Class
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Class
Image of Terry Eagleton
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
- Terry Eagleton
Collection: Class
Image of Gloria Estefan
The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
- Gloria Estefan
Collection: Class
Image of Carol Rifka Brunt
Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.
- Carol Rifka Brunt
Collection: Class
Image of Warren Farrell
It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.
- Warren Farrell
Collection: Class
Image of Albert Einstein
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Class
Image of Misty Copeland
Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.
- Misty Copeland
Collection: Class
Image of Richard A. Falk
The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.
- Richard A. Falk
Collection: Class
Image of Michelangelo Antonioni
I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
- Michelangelo Antonioni
Collection: Class
Image of William E. Gladstone
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
- William E. Gladstone
Collection: Class
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Class
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Class
Image of Matthew Arnold
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
- Matthew Arnold
Collection: Class
Image of Rudy Giuliani
If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.
- Rudy Giuliani
Collection: Class
Image of Pope Francis
There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Class
Image of Criss Jami
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
- Criss Jami
Collection: Class
Image of Aristotle
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
- Aristotle
Collection: Class
Image of Aristotle
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
- Aristotle
Collection: Class
Image of Aristotle
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
- Aristotle
Collection: Class
Image of Aristotle
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.
- Aristotle
Collection: Class
Image of Emma Goldman
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements
- Emma Goldman
Collection: Class
Image of Jose Ortega y Gasset
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Collection: Class
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Class
Image of Hannah Arendt
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
- Hannah Arendt
Collection: Class
Image of Aretha Franklin
Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.
- Aretha Franklin
Collection: Class
Image of Matthew Arnold
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.
- Matthew Arnold
Collection: Class
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Class
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Class
Image of Christopher Fry
Equality is a mortuary word.
- Christopher Fry
Collection: Class
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Class
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Class
Image of Aristotle
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
- Aristotle
Collection: Class
Image of James Frey
It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.
- James Frey
Collection: Class
Image of Michael J. Fox
I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.
- Michael J. Fox
Collection: Class
Image of Ashley Greene
I always liked performing. I always liked being in front of people. That's one of the things I loved about law; we had mock trials, and I got to go up and state my case. But I took an acting class, and after my first class, I was hooked.
- Ashley Greene
Collection: Class
Image of Aristotle
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
- Aristotle
Collection: Class
Image of Bill Gates
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Class
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Class
Image of E. M. Forster
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
- E. M. Forster
Collection: Class
Image of Paulo Freire
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the egoistic pursuit of having as a possessing class, they suffocate in their own possessions and no longer are; they merely have.
- Paulo Freire
Collection: Class