Quotes by Class 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. George Orwell fightingclassmen I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes. George R. R. Martin writingclassopportunity I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever. Gisele Bundchen skillsclassthinking If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class. George Orwell ordinaryclasscharacter An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. Glenn Greenwald limitslawclass Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months. Glenn McGrath lastsclassthinking The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them. Glenn Reynolds collegehomeclass The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better. Glenn Greenwald politicalheartclass Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice. George Bernard Shaw governmentclasslong Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class. George Bernard Shaw organizationclassmean 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. Gertrude Stein serenityclasspeople Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country. Glenn Reynolds classcountryideas The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself. Gloria Estefan everydayclasspeople It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. George Washington rightsexerciseclass How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! George Orwell soulwisdomclass I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent. Godfrey illinoisclassschool The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra latterdifferencesclass Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra imperfectcommunityclass Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges. George Orwell essentialsrealclass It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry. Gordon Allport raceplayclass«7071727374757677787980»
