Class Quotes - page 9

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables. (Anatol Rapoport)
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. View quote
Carter Woodson
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. View quote
Stephen Leacock
A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class. View quote
Damon Knight
There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. View quote
Irving Kristol
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. View quote
Smedley Butler
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. (Sharon Stone)
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. View quote
Judith Martin
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people. View quote
Michael Parenti
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. View quote
Arthur Laffer
Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics. View quote
James Berardinelli
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions. View quote
Karl Liebknecht
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people. View quote
Leonid Brezhnev
I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune. View quote
William Joyce
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)
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental. View quote
C. L. R. James
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution. View quote
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. View quote
Walt Whitman