Class Quotes

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Ignorance, People, Degradation

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• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

  Lord Acton

  Rights, Government, Political

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Attitude, War

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• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Gloria Steinem

  Planning Ahead, Goal, Poor Planning

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

  Aristotle

  Character, Angel, Men

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• You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

  Lena Horne

  African American, Way, Taught

  Lena Horne, Richard Schickel (1966). “Lena”

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• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

  John Madden

  Self Esteem, Humble, Sunset

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• There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

  Leonard Woolf

  Men, Politics, Privilege

  Leonard Woolf (1939). “Barbarians Within and Without”

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• Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

  Ann Landers

  Trying, Needs, Looks

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Loyalty, Mean, Race

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “The trumpet of conscience”, Harpercollins

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• Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Powerful, Reality

  "How Do You Light a Fart?: And 150 Other Essential Things Every Guy Should Know about Science". Book by Bobby Mercer, 2009.

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• I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Dream, Father

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  Walt Whitman

  Land, America, People

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

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• All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

  William E. Gladstone

  Political, World, Politics

  Speech, Liverpool, England, 28 June 1886

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• If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

  William James

  Fear, Civilization, Suffering

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.334, Library of America

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• By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Order, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2014). “The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Optimism, Contentment, Comfort

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Justice, Diversity, Analysis

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

  Ann Landers

  Cocky, Auras, Cockiness

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• I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  School, Kids, Littles

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