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For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."
I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.
I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.
There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol.
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.
I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.
All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.