Classes Quotes

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Political, Control, Perfect

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

Work, Drinking, Curse

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin

Three, Move, Divided

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Two, Divided, Incredible

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

Hope, Live, Memory

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Good, Enough

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx

Nothing, Win, Revolution

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato

Men, Wisdom, Honor

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

Future, Past, Nation

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
Bill Gates

American, Few, Teach

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell

War, Country, Against

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving, Democracy, Happen

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward Beecher

Dangerous, Ignorant

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

Mind, Thinking, Two

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl Sagan

Night, Find, Sun

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Him

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

Government, Rights, United

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Life, Away, Difficult

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Time, Two, Books

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Time, Two, Books

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison

Government, Doubt, Found

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

History, Experience, Science

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster

Children, Why, Themselves

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired, Mean, Words

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley

Travel, Children, Two

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Rich, Noticed, Studied

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. Milne

Two, Divided, Subject

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Good, Reading, Fill

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin

Struggle, Evil, Understand

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