Quotes by Class But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished - and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate. Voltairine de Cleyre organizationsocialclass There is no alternative to class struggle. Vyacheslav Molotov alternativesstruggleclass Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. Vladimir Nabokov classpastyears The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be. W. E. B. Du Bois diversityjusticeclass Donald Trump is targeting the traditional Republican voters, the average person with an average income, the working class, a certain group of entrepreneurs and those people who embrace traditional values. Vladimir Putin classaveragepeople No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. W. H. Auden playing-gamesinnocenceclass Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual. W. J. T. Mitchell racesimpleclass As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it. W. Kamau Bell colorwhiteclass Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero. W. P. Kinsella herofloodclass In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. W. H. Auden uniqueprayerclass Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! W. S. Gilbert bowsmiddleclass The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them. Voltaire musicclassanimal Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions. W. Somerset Maugham classcountryamerica I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point. Wale can-doclasstrying Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? Walker Percy categoriesclass I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum. W. Somerset Maugham goes-onclassmen I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world. Walt Mossberg technologyclassenemy The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. Walter Cronkite politicalclasspeople Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life. Walter de La Mare soulclassschool I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country. Walter Cronkite classcountryschool«201202203204205206207208209210211»
