Class Quotes - Page 2

• Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

  Cyril Connolly

  Delirium Tremens, Apathy, Literature

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• I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

  Redd Foxx

  Son, America, Needs

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• 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

  Dream, Fashion, Money

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• I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

  Kid Rock

  Mom, Dad, Lunch

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• It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

  Arianna Huffington

  Exaggeration Is, Middle, Endangered Species

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Luxury, Political, Politics

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• There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, America, Leaving

  AFF Presidential Forum in Washington DC, March 14, 2007.

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• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Issues, People

  "Tim McGraw: I'm 'a True Southern Populist Kind of Democrat'". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2006.

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• 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.

  Francis Crick

  Thinking, Simplicity, Messages

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  Military, College, Everyday

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• I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery school, a play group (to watch over their children while they were studying). So in one of the garages that was near where we were having the classes, we established a play group area and the students volunteered to supervise. That eventually led to building a state-licensed nursery school, which was approved by the California department of social welfare.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, School, Years

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• Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Passionate, Thirsty

  'Essays in Criticism' First Series (1865) preface

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• What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

  Margaret Drabble

  People

  1963 A Summer Birdcage, ch.11.

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• It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, May, Natural

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• I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

  Maureen Forrester

  Born, Middle, Montreal

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• It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Safety, Looks, England

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1910*). “The English humourists. Critical reviews. The second funeral of Napoleon. The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

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• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Literature

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  Paul Getty

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Hatred

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• I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'.

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Meeting Someone, Needs

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• England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

  George Orwell

  Country, Silly, Land

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

  Christopher Hampton

  Decadence, Substitutes, Sophistication

  Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Ignorant, Dangerous

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• 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

  Smile, Diversity, Society

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• Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.

  Roland Barthes

  Keys, Bourgeoisie, Century

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