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“Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.”

Ifs Whole Difficult Class Imagine Possibility Moved Newton Bradman

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.”

Thinking Has Beens War Fighting Poor Class Rich Fighting Back

Author:Naomi Klein

“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.”

“we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.”

“I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.”

People Said Wanted Mother Father Company Class Five Teacher Yeah Performers Insurance Companies Dance Class

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.”

Feels Trying Country Grows Views Deals Class Growing Up Citizens Thirds Point Of View Latin Entitled

Author:John Leguizamo

“The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.”

Ifs States Class Air Appearance Labour Paradox Nevertheless Commodity Propositions Paradoxical

Book:Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

Source: Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application

“It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products.”

Important Class Middle Materials Products Higher Demand Resources Servant Middle Class Efficient Classes Of Society

Author:Thomas Malthus

“In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.”

Realizing Class Share Adversity Fortune Prosperity Working Class Prosperous

Author:Thomas Malthus

“The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.”

Use Class Reader Authority Overcoming Skepticism

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.”

Ifs World Different Country Would Be Causes Class Demand Advantage Destroyed Occasions Consumers Capitalist Fourth Distress Commodity Working Class Inconvenience

Author:Thomas Malthus

“I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.”

I Can Class Middle Middle Class

Author:John Prescott

“By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.”

“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Mean Spiritual Values Church Race Class Struggle Blood Conflict Tasks Folks Dogma Settlement Spiritual Values

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.”

Earth Three Community United Class Land Produce Industry Surface Labour Owners Divided Application Machinery Cultivation Labourers

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.”

Ifs Law Voice Poor Class Rights Fashion Honor Mere Enterprise Wealthy Womens Rights Avenues Dolls Puppets Parlor Breaking The Law

Author:Ernestine Rose

“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”

Should Culture Social Ability Class Equal Achievement Expectations Aspiration Affected Motivated Prospects Social Class

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.”

“In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.”

Source: Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.”

Way Doe Real Class Pieces Failing Security Design Safe Critical Permit Bugs Infrastructure

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.”

Knows Feels Kids Evil Class Guilty Bullying Bullied

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.”

People Ifs Looks Stills Together Faces Sex Space Half Class Couple Pure Messages Europe Seats Fascinating Trends Working Class Suburbs Clip Half Full Latest Trends

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.”

Ifs Difficult Enemy Class Let Me Add Propaganda Marxist Lacan

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.”

Should Mind Humans Mean Ends Winning Liberty Class Bears Dignity Our Society Human Dignity

Author:Hyman Rickover

“To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.”

War Enough Class Offers Claims Injustice Socialism Triumph Broads Platforms

Author:Keir Hardie

“All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.”

World Political Politics Class Mass

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.”

Whole Facts Class Southern Nobility Farming Peasants Virginia Aristocracy Merchants Colony Carolina North Carolina

Author:Carl L. Becker

“There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.”

Race Class Generations Becoming Fit Checks Steady Civilisation Fertility

Author:Francis Galton

“The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.”

“I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands of people. I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness. Joyfulness is our birthright. This book shows you how to reclaim it.”

People Giving Has Beens Book Shows Form Joy Class Struggle Plans Creating Available Awakening Helpful Clients Birthright Joyfulness

Author:M. J. Ryan

“I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.”

Men Feels Heart Kind Feelings Hands Certain Courses Fun Waiting Class Watches Seeing Week Sadness Minutes Promise Tired Phones Bunch Holiday Mars Floating Nasa Prom Inns Cranky Neptune Dejected

Author:Celia Rivenbark

“If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.”

Ifs Wish Community Class Benefits More Knowledge

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.”

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.”

“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”

Men Way Mean Art Use Spiritual Law Class Minutes Art Is Function Aim Chaos Bounds Likes Distinction Sublime Proletariat Bourgeoisie Class Distinction

Author:Kurt Schwitters

“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.”

Kind Art Kids Father Felt Easy Water Class Color Draws Drawing Painter Hated Sunday Assignments Art Class

Author:Wade Guyton

“We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.”

Country Interest Liberty Class Democracy Modern Speech Presses Discussion Permit Association Regimes Principal Ruling

Author:Gaetano Mosca

“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.”

World Children Faces Used Animal Wonder Class Boys Watches Fantasy Middle Adventure Clouds Giants Middle Class Dragons Castles Mundane Middle Class Life

Author:Barry B. Longyear

“I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.”

Thinking Lines Deals Class Issues Racism Bottom Vices Solve Aids Sexism Bottom Line Vice Versa Epidemics Homophobia Aids Epidemic

Author:Ann Northrop

“Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.”

Men Mean Might Certain Order Community Class Exercise Gold Function Mediums Silver Metals Commodity Gold And Silver Precious Metal

Book:Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

Source: Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

“By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.”

Made Home Deals Class Millions Sun Middle Republican Europe Middle Class Ownership Housing Belts New Deal Groundwork Home Ownership Public Housing

Book:The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

Source: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

“Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.”

People Thinking Giving Littles Character Helping Problem Reality Guy Wish Class Middle Events Reader Ordinary Average Middle Class Scenarios Main Characters Wilder

Author:Bentley Little

“Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.”

Way Individual Class Conditions Behave Permit Capitalist Reproduction

Author:David Harvey

“Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.”

Giving Long America Lines Race Class Records Color Blind Gender Credit Criminals Damn Addresses Voters Cash Vegas Las Vegas Orientation Lineage Registration Voter Registration

Author:Marc Cooper

“All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.”

Knows Children Reading Parent Class Fields Bases Cooking Clubs Engaged Troops Know Me Organize Homeschooling Field Trip Cooking Classes

Author:Quinn Cummings

“There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.”

May Natural Class Cases Subjects Research Consideration Portions Reserved Algebra

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.”

Want Feels Ideas Real Black White Levels Accepting Class Middle Female Vote Organization Democratic Democrat Males Pursue Middle Class Voters Elites Working Class Affluent Tacit

Author:Ellen Willis

“The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.”

Giving Heart Country Able Class Mass Prejudice Errors Educated Reform Handful Idolatry Upper Class

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

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