“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.” ClassMassConsciousOrganizationContraryOrganizedWorking ClassVanguard Author:Ernest Mandel
“There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.” Has BeensStatesWholeClassPlansMiddleConsciousCongressWhole LifeMiddle ClassLegislatorsStrengthening Author:Peter Welch
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal with human beings with whom I've come in contact and have had a chance to closely observe. Their upper-classness is not a matter of particular fascination for me.” HumansMatterTogetherChanceHuman BeingsDealsClassModernParticularConsciousContactCuriousFascinationModern Life Author:Louis Auchincloss
“It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.” MenWomenAttitudeClassAcceptanceProductsConsciousMen And WomenConvictionTraitsPassiveIgnobleSnobbish Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.” SpiritualLanguageCommonClassIllusionConsciousCommon SenseRulingDeceitfulMoralizing Author:Karl Marx
“I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.” YearsFirstsSelfClassFrontsSceneConsciousFirst TimeCamerasOperaSoapSelf ConsciousBrooklynSkipSoap Operas Author:Paul Wesley
“I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsHas BeensSocialCausesChanceSpaceClassEconomicDiseaseConsciousProfitEaseBarriersArrangements Author:Randall Robinson
“Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations.” MenNationsPoorKnownLeaderClassCasesConsciousProgramOppressionSocialistOppressedSaddamMarxism Author:Saddam Hussein
“The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.” MatterFactsRunningClassConsciousEuropeLaborViolentDedicated Author:Noam Chomsky
“The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control them. They understand what they're doing, and they're very class conscious. They press policies which work for their interests.” LiteratureInterestTalkingClassDangerPolicyMassConsciousPressesUnions Author:Noam Chomsky
“I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.” WorldBelieveIdeasI BelieveClassBecomingConsciousBritainRulingBecoming MoreQuakeRuling The World Author:Johnny Vegas
“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldLongWarRealHappensFightingClassConsciousUnderstoodBitter Book:At War with Asia Source: At War with Asia
“Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.” PeopleWellsHas BeensRealSelfCountryChristianSpiritualGivenPleasureResultsClassIssuesSecurityProudEgoConsciousTransformationDisasterVersionsConsumersRacistSincereFast Food Author:Richard Rohr
“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.” JusticeClassDiversityConsciousEssenceSocial JusticePrivilegePrivilegedDeprivedDeprivationClass System Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs