Class Quotes - Page 92

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table [the Constitution] gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent that they serve the economic and political purposes of the corporations, they are the foes – and not the friends – of the working class.

I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.