Quotes by category:Class

Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It could hardly fail to injure social peace and harmony.

Hans F. Sennholz

calling class two

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

rejects class ideas

First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

gentleman guy class

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

simple writing class

The vineyards of philanthropy are pleasant places, and I would hope good men and women will be drawn there.... If these vineyards are to thrive and bear their best fruit, they must always have first-class attention.

Harold J. Seymour

good-man class men

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

discrimination class men

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a... by Harold Laski

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

materials mind class

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

intelligence guy class

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

luxury class thinking

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distress... by Harold Bloom

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

writing class ideas

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Harriet Martineau

progression effort class

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

snakes class weather

The most important word in the language of the working class is "... by Harry Bridges

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

unity important class

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die? by Harold Pinter

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

aristocracy want class

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society.

Harriet Martineau

suffering class men

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions. by Harriet Martineau

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Harriet Martineau

moral excellence class

With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.

perseverance self class

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Harriet Martineau

suffering class europe

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

class giving two