Best kings & class Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.”

World Class Kings Areas Crosses Dirty Working Class Surroundings

Author:Kenneth Williams

“The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.”

Ifs States Three Class Greater Subjects Kings Citizens Honour Divides Foreigners Crossings Sweepers

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.”

World Wells Faces Black Deals Class Kings Fighter Ems Belts World Class Black Belt

Author:Mark Hunt

“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.”

Men Death Mother Differences Sleep Accepting Class Struggle Kings Men And Women Breathing Spells Twins Sheets Pathetic Beggar Majestic Castes

Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

“That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”

Hard Class Middle Willing Cold Kings Mass Glasses Educated Ice Servant Middle Class Sentimental Brutality Cowardly Susceptible Servility

Author:Alfred Doblin

“Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.”

People Men Sometimes Hard Numbers Class Son Kings Healthy Prove Atmosphere Gentleman Definite Unhealthy Aristocracy Delegates

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.”

People Thinking Needs Years Made Said Certain Responsibility Class Middle Brother Kings Mass Years Ago Shoulders Made It Middle Class Brothers And Sisters Luther

Author:Angela Davis

“I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.”

Ifs Children Play Class Television Kings Drama Series Betrayal Chiefs Village Playwright Treason Headmasters Television Drama

Author:Sefi Atta

“Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.”

Feels Loss Grief Class Kings Hero Queens Giants Bitterness Working Class Peasants Emperor Grief Loss Love Jealousy Anger Love Working Class Hero

Author:Rhys Ifans

“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.”

Years Littles Said Kids School Party Class Kings Band Graduates Genes Grammar Saxophone Tenors Grammar School Graduating Class

Author:Johnny Griffin

“I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Black Class Middle Kings Backgrounds Middle Class Luther Rationale

Author:Ella Baker

“Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.”

Has Beens Enough Facts Certain Values Class Roles Too Much Middle Kings Independent Independence Accepted Resistance Recognition Explanation Middle Class Luther

Author:Ella Baker

“In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.”

Thinking May Book Reason Hands School Language Rooms Class Four Kings Involved Scene Six Moved Library Boring Theatre Reason Why Desks Forbidden Accused Ceilings Lear Astounded Awestruck

Author:Keith Johnstone

“Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.”

Persons Walks Common Class Virtue Kings Comfortable Crowds

Book:Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.”

Ifs Men Humans Hate Humanity Speak Nations Effort Race Class Middle Mankind Strange Kings Despair Soldier Curious Middle Class Priests Adore Distrust Humane Sailor Dividing Working Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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