class quotes

• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain) [facts/class]
• All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. (Friedrich Engels) [class/development]
• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. (Jack London) [god/mother/class]
• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. ( Aristotle) [character/class]
• The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. (Arthur James Balfour) [strike/class/more]
• There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. ( Napoleon I) [class/people/state]
• Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. (Bertolt Brecht) [question/class]
• News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news. (Benjamin Disraeli) [news/point/class/news]
• The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [class/cold/night/day]
• 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) [class/class/power/order]
• Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched. (Thomas Fuller) [class/society/face/smile]
• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [government/banks/class/government]
• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors. (William Hazlitt) [life/wish/class/society]
• The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. (Katharine Hepburn) [gifts/high/class/age]
• It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served. (Napoleon Hill) [services/people/class/people]
• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. (John Keats) [think/class/lawyer]
• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. (Ralph Lauren) [people/class]
• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction. (Claude Levi-Strauss) [being/human/class/society]
• I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. (Abraham Lincoln) [take/class/willpower/class]
• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. (John Madden) [class]
• The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. (David Mamet) [fashion/attempt/class/speech]
• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe. (Harriet Martineau) [class/europe]
• A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. (Mary McCarthy) [society/class/people/reading]
• In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? (Mary McCarthy) [class/vulgarity]
• A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. (Mary McCarthy) [society/class/people/reading]
• In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? (Mary McCarthy) [class/vulgarity]
• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. (Pablo Picasso) [class/find]
• The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family. (George Santayana) [family/class/bees/family]
• All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life. (Sydney Smith) [class/inspires/life]
• 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) [measure/class/class/future]
• Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. (Henry David Thoreau) [class]

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