1,743 Quotes About Class

  • Author Todd Nelson
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    They saw him as the class clown. He was tall and scrawny and always playing practical jokes on teachers. The girls laughed at him but never fancied him.

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  • Author Timothy Noah
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    There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.

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  • Author Timothy Noah
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    Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.

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  • Author V. S. Naipaul
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    I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

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  • Author Barack Obama
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    I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.

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  • Author Cynthia Ozick
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    Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

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  • Author Elizabeth Olsen
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    If you can't really have a conversation with someone candidly about it it's something that you'll always have something to learn from when it comes to taking a literature class.

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  • Author George Orwell
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    The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

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