Quotes by Class My other friends are in music relaxation class, which I do not attend, because smooth jazz makes me angry sometimes. Matthew Quick smooth-jazzclassrelaxation One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. Matthew Arnold ordinaryclassworld The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. Matthew Arnold likesclassheaven In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant. Matthew Arnold lost-oneshomeclass I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. Maureen Forrester middlebornclass Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. Matthew Arnold passionateclassblood That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. Matthew Arnold englandclassamerica If there is a class war - and there is - it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones. Maurice Cowling lost-onesclasswar Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading. Matthieu Ricard airclassrunning Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets. Mason Cooley gentlemanclasschildren The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember. Mason Cooley shoesvoiceclass Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable... Maurice Strong eugenicsairclass In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Max Beerbohm classcharactertwo Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. Max Brooks zombieraceclass One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Max Beerbohm classmighttwo The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate. Max Horkheimer fateclassmen Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor - even in this industry. Max Irons classpeoplethinking A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles. Max Brooks zombieclassnumbers To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him. Maxim Gorky truthclassart The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. Max Weber emotionalreligiousclass«135136137138139140141142143144145»
