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“Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.”

Class Magazines Irony Flats Meaningless Definite Superiority Casual Fashionable New Yorkers Trademarks Smartness Frame Of Reference

Author:Randall Jarrell

“It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.”

School Class Roles Saws Students Drama High School Productions Gifted Steppenwolf Drama Class

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.”

Looks Kids Three Class Poverty Overcoming Blue Despite Crush Distinction Hotel Maids Bikinis Surfer Hawaiians Class Distinction

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.”

Remember Interest Class Republican Democrat Fewer Capitalist

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.”

Way Children Doe Seems Found Wealth Sleep Race Class Unique Access Significant Oppression Guts Territory Oppressed Machinery Tangled

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker, one is turned out better but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.”

Values Girl Class Males Consumers Vocabulary Pornography Lexicon High Class

Book:Pornography: men possessing women

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.”

Giving Years America Term Class Members Prison Congress Average Criminals Release Backwards Murderer Tenure

Author:Pat Robertson

“So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!”

Ifs Men May Different Earth Names Numbers Class Wonderful Truth Is Balls Tiny Variety Collectives Belonging Magnificence Immensity

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”

Should Firsts Force Growth Class Intellectual Concern Intelligence Productive Rapids Ardent Rapid Growth

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil”

Evil Poor Class Lows Roots Compromise

Author:Novala Takemoto

“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

States House Class Technology Credit Debt Communism Expensive Owners Pushing Goods Working Class Unbearable Bankruptcy

Author:Karl Marx

“And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly, think weakly, and see untruly (second order of poets); the men who feel strongly, think strongly, and see truly (first order of poets); and the men who, strong as human creatures can be, are yet submitted to influences stronger than they, and see in a sort untruly, because what they see is inconceivably above them. This last is the usual condition of prophetic inspiration.”

Thinking Men Feels Firsts Humans Inspiration Lasts Order Strong Class Four Influence Conditions He Man Poet Creatures Stronger Usual Prophetic

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.”

People Stills Self Helping Spirit Class Virtue Self Help Higher Healthy Standards Raises Pulling Advancing

Author:Samuel Smiles

“That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.”

America Nations Class Middle England Middle Class

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.”

“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”

Mind Kind Class Struggle Groups Modern Type Hatred Creeds Modern Society Class Struggle

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.”

States Age Past Class Degrees Myth Assumption Superiority Utopia Populist

Book:The Age of Reform

Source: The Age of Reform

“When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.”

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.”

“If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.”

Ifs Lying Understanding Voice Attention Class Failing Listening Members Faults Secure Speakers Enlightening

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”

Lasts America Class Middle Century Grew Grew Up Middle Class Middle Class Family

Author:Hillary Clinton

“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...”

Want Persons Ideas Age Race Class Written Identity Reader Pages Gender Naked Intimacy Agency Connecting Thrilling Nationality Written Word Tautology

Author:Will Self

“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.”

War Used Suffering Courses Wealth Class Poverty Industry Method China Inequality Dictatorship Distribution Proletariat Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Sun Yat-sen

“There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.”

Government Today Challenges Class Figures Champion Arrogance Establishment Elites Working Class Jimmy Public Figures Jimmy Hoffa

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.”

Whole Parent Acting Class Grew Grew Up Coaches Whole Life Acting Classes Babysitter

Author:Blake Lively

“We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.”

People Jobs Class Rich Growing Middle Industry Middle Class Rich People Manufacturing Service Industry

Author:Chris Hayes

“If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Class Coaches Who I Am Airplane First Class

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”

Real Hard Play Character Film Games Class Watches Morning Middle Television Balls Real Life Restaurants Middle Class Lunch Competent Practise Ball Games Clarinet Middle Class Life

Author:Woody Allen

“I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.”

People Thinking Years Children Use Problem Bigs Realizing Natural Class Middle Resources India Upset Middle Class Natural Resources Big Families Tanzania

Author:Jane Goodall

“The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.”

Artist Ability Class Skills Draws Determine Drawing Academic Curriculum Workshops

Author:Igor Babailov

“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”

Mother Father Community Class Teacher Backgrounds Working Class Organizer

Author:Chris Hayes

“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.”

Firsts Class Player Personality Approach Unique Musical Passionate Singers Thoughtful Frank Delivery First Class Rarity

Author:Tom Kimmel

“You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.”

Men Class Hatred Brotherhood Rich And Poor Thrift Class Warfare Weakening Help The Poor Brotherhood Of Man

Author:Paul Getty

“The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.”

Party Class Republican Officials Republican Party Ruling

Author:Angelo Codevilla

“For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.”

People Humans Two Reason Human Beings Responsibility Class Creative Comfortable Rulers Persist Creative People Free Society Abolish Lives Of Others Yoke

Book:Dear America

Source: Dear America

“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.”

States Political United Class United States Development Late Mass Organization Working Class Retarded Retard

Author:C. L. R. James

“The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.”

“The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.”

Ifs Firsts May Energy Loss Effort Class Civilization Succeed Tragedy Structure Unions Democratic Conquer Jungle Fixing American Life Cooperatives

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed into heresy, the princes of the Church and the nobles enjoyed the freedom of the Renaissance.”

People Action Church Common Opinion Class Danger Enjoyed Ruthless Heresy Renaissance Bourgeois Interference Suppression Inquisition Aristocratic

Book:Men of Destiny (Ppr)

Source: Men of Destiny (Ppr)

“While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.”

Has Beens Age Law Courses Social Interest Class Injury Customs Portions Dominant In-laws Modification Nucleus

Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense.”

Mean Doe Art Reality Deals Class Study Example Aspect Psychological Internals Conventions Totality

Book:Collected Works: Do what you will

Source: Collected Works: Do what you will

“There are Plebes in all classes.”

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.”

War Facts Class Break Gone Economic Conflict Benefits Spring Connections Tendencies Barriers Horizon Breaking Down Intercourse

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“It may be seriously questioned whether the philosophies... which isolate mind and set it over against the world did not have their origin in the fact that the reflective or theoretical class of men elaborated a large stock of ideas which social conditions did not allow them to act upon and test. Consequently men were thrown back into their own thoughts as ends in themselves.”

Men World Mind May Ideas Ends Philosophy Facts Social Class Conditions Tests Thrown Theoretical Social Conditions

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“While [Plato] affirmed with emphasis that the place of the individual in society should not be determined by birth or wealth or any conventional status, but by his own nature as discovered in the process of education, he had no perception of the uniqueness of individuals. For him they fall by nature into classes, and into a very small number of classes at that.”

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Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.”

Trying Stills Class Conversation Method Criminals Foolish Improving Philanthropist

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works