Class Quotes - Page 26

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

There is no alternative to class struggle.

If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

Get off your sofa and pick your jawbones off the floor, that was a world-class save.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Girls learn sexiness, women teach class.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I can understand how people would despise my image and my father's persona. My father's image amongst the poorest of people, those forgotten by the state, still remains a respected image. Whether we like it or not, my father was an important figure who filled a vacuum left by the state amongst the lower social classes.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I like doing a challenging class because it makes me more brave in life. My perception of hardships is now completely different. I'm not whining and moaning inside as much.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.