91 Quotes About Working-class
- Author Núria Añó
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Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
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- Author Jeanette Winterson
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Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder; I am not one of those people. It's better to know it, better to know who you are, and what lies in you, and what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation.
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- Author V.O. Diedlaff
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When a man wants to rob a bank he hides behind a mask, but when a banker wants to rob a man, he hides behind a corporation.
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- Author Joyce Rachelle
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I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
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- Author Ida Løkås
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He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.
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- Author Tawni O'Dell
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She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.
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- Author Peter O'Toole
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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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- Author Alan Sillitoe
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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.
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