Class Quotes - Page 21

• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Easy, Goodness

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Book, School

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• He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

  John Connolly

  Fun, Talking, Ideas

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, People, Ugly

  "The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi". Interview with Janelle Nanos, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2005.

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• In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Thinking, America

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• It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Interesting, Tea

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• Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Meat, Giants

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Lessons, Management, Plans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Film, Feds

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• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Hate, Men

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• Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Civilization, Weakness, Stories

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Corsets, Ifs

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  Pete Townshend

  People, Hypocrisy, Being Sad

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• He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Math, Taught, Helpful

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• You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

  Donald Trump

  Funny, People, Rich

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump Would Spend $600 Million of His Own Money On Presidential Bid" by Ashleigh Banfield, Rich Mchugh and Suzan Clarke, abcnews.go.com. March 17, 2011.

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• There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

  Josh Turner

  Sports, School, Opportunity

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• If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Men, Doubt, Persons

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.78, Penguin

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• I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

  Anne Tyler

  Literature, Levels, Study

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Real, Jail, People

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• People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Positive, Struggle

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.102, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.

  George Will

  School, Cutting, Thinking

  "George Will Compares This Budget Deadlock To Past Conflicts". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 9, 2013.

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• Class still matters in Britain today.

  Johnny Vegas

  Matter, Today, Britain

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• I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

  Johnny Vegas

  Believe, Ideas, Ruling The World

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• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Real, Criminals

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