Quotes by Class If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes. George Perle tonetwelveclass I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics. George Packer voiceclassthinking Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case. George Packer economicanswersclass It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach. George Polya importantmayclass I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class. George Osborne classpeopleideas It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class. George Packer partyclasshands The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. George Orwell wishdesireclass The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad. George Santayana classtworeality He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all. George MacDonald faithfulcitiesclass I have lunch with my friend who works for a theatrical agent and her and I were sitting there eating lunch on Sunset Boulevard and a woman who was a theatrical agent drove by and saw me and jumped out of the car and ran up and handed me her card. I had no idea this happens or would happen and I didn't know what to expect out of it. And my brother said alright you better call her and I said alright, why not? So that's pretty much how we got our first agent and then we started taking acting classes. George Stults sunsetbrotherclass 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. George Steinbrenner yankeesclassyears 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. George W. S. Trow coherencechoicesclass David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players. George Steinbrenner threeplayerclass The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government. George Will namesclassamerica In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. George Will sacrificeclassmean In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature only individuals exist, while genera, orders, and classes only exist in our imagination. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon truthclassorder The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. Gerald Early ambitionclassamerica The war is underway. It's class warfare. It's Off With Their Heads 2.0. It's going to be a battle between the haves and the have-nots. Only a very few have everything, and way too many have much too little. Gerald Celente battleclasswar Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. Gerald Brenan specialclasspeople Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. Gerald of Wales givenclasspeople«6768697071727374757677»
