Class Quotes - Page 36

• There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Time, Past, Soul

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.233

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• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Squares, Violence

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

  Aristotle

  True Friend, Taken, Character

  Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

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• It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

  Harold Prince

  Guy, Intelligence, Hustle

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• Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

  Amartya Sen

  Knowledge, Fighting, People

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• The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.

  John Dewey

  Art, Knowledge, Knowing

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.237, SIU Press

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• What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Powerful, Simple

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• I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Country, Passion

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Men, Insults You

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Peace, War

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• A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

  John Conyers

  Peace, Party, Race

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, People, Progress

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• The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Religious, Atheist, Intelligent

  "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.

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• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  People, Democracy, Society

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• Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

  Pete Townshend

  Law, Long, People

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• You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".

  Noam Chomsky

  Truth, Independent, Issues

  "Language and Politics". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1988.

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• I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

  Joan Miro

  Courage, Believe, Adventure

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• In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

  Cam Newton

  Football, Sleep, Math

  Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hero, Criminals, Worship

  Oscar Wilde, Bob Blaisdell, Odette Blaisdell (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Easter, Islands, Royal

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• The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Past, Men

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• At first, the idea of doing a 90-minute workout in a 40 degree room sounded like torture. But the sweating is exactly what I became addicted to. My body changed dramatically almost immediately. Within three classes, I noticed less belly fat. My knees and legs are stronger than ever now; my arms have definition for the first time in my life; and my posture is much, much better. I also feel completely energized from all of the deep breathing. I leave class relieved of any anxiety I went in with, and the sweating and detoxifying make my skin feel great.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Workout, Yoga, Ideas

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• I started doing yoga in my 20s. I did teacher training, that was what I was going to do if acting didn't work out. I started teaching other actors right at the beginning of the yoga craze - people still thought it was a little weird, but a lot of actors I knew were getting into it and didn't want to look foolish in class. So I started teaching them!

  Kristin Davis

  Teacher, Yoga, Teaching

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• You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, Lines, Able

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