Top Class Quotes Collection - Page 9

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Image of Ryan Reynolds
But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see.
- Ryan Reynolds
Collection: Class
Image of Steven Pinker
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Class
Image of Bernie Sanders
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline and we have to go outside of establishment politics and economics, people who know that we need to reform a broken criminal justice system and we need comprehensive immigration reform.
- Bernie Sanders
Collection: Class
Image of Robert Louis Stevenson
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Collection: Class
Image of Gore Vidal
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Class
Image of Charles Schumer
The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.
- Charles Schumer
Collection: Class
Image of Mort Sahl
I went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.
- Mort Sahl
Collection: Class
Image of Matt Smith
I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.
- Matt Smith
Collection: Class
Image of Charles Dudley Warner
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
- Charles Dudley Warner
Collection: Class
Image of Mark Ruffalo
The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.
- Mark Ruffalo
Collection: Class
Image of Barack Obama
I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Class
Image of Benito Mussolini
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
- Benito Mussolini
Collection: Class
Image of Jean Baudrillard
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.
- Jean Baudrillard
Collection: Class
Image of Bernie Sanders
The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.
- Bernie Sanders
Collection: Class
Image of Bertrand Russell
The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Class
Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Collection: Class
Image of Gore Vidal
We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Class
Image of Bill Watterson
The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
- Bill Watterson
Collection: Class
Image of George Michael
My parents both came from very poor working-class families.
- George Michael
Collection: Class
Image of L. Frank Baum
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
- L. Frank Baum
Collection: Class
Image of Salman Rushdie
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
- Salman Rushdie
Collection: Class
Image of George Orwell
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
- George Orwell
Collection: Class
Image of David Brooks
Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
- David Brooks
Collection: Class
Image of Kanye West
You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead.
- Kanye West
Collection: Class
Image of Andy Rooney
I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
- Andy Rooney
Collection: Class
Image of Veronica Roth
Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up." he smirks.
- Veronica Roth
Collection: Class
Image of Cal Thomas
Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?
- Cal Thomas
Collection: Class
Image of Pam Houston
I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
- Pam Houston
Collection: Class
Image of Henry David Thoreau
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Class
Image of Joseph Stalin
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
- Joseph Stalin
Collection: Class
Image of Diana Vreeland
Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
- Diana Vreeland
Collection: Class
Image of Lauren Myracle
Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.
- Lauren Myracle
Collection: Class
Image of Kate Moss
I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.
- Kate Moss
Collection: Class
Image of Simone de Beauvoir
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Collection: Class
Image of Donald Trump
It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped America of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Class
Image of James Bovard
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
- James Bovard
Collection: Class
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Class
Image of Joe Biden
The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.
- Joe Biden
Collection: Class
Image of Michelle Obama
I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.
- Michelle Obama
Collection: Class
Image of Tony Benn
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.
- Tony Benn
Collection: Class
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Class
Image of Sade Adu
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
- Sade Adu
Collection: Class
Image of Gertrude Stein
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
- Gertrude Stein
Collection: Class
Image of Mike Tyson
He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.
- Mike Tyson
Collection: Class
Image of Gloria Steinem
Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
- Gloria Steinem
Collection: Class
Image of George Saunders
I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.
- George Saunders
Collection: Class
Image of Naomi Watts
I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I'm fairly fit.
- Naomi Watts
Collection: Class
Image of Henry David Thoreau
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Class
Image of Michael Bloomberg
I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.
- Michael Bloomberg
Collection: Class