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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-Arabic Proverb
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At a round table there is no dispute about place.
-Italian Proverb
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No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
-Proverb
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The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
-Aristotle
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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
-Matthew Arnold
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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.
-Matthew Arnold
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Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
-Roland Barthes
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34
-Bible
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Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
-George Bush
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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
-Thomas Carlyle
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
-Dante Alighieri
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
-Albert Einstein
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
-Friedrich Engels
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When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is.
-Zoe Fairbairns
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What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.
-Frantz Fanon
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
-Thomas Fuller
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The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
-William Ewart Gladstone
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
-Christopher Hampton
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What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
-Hermann Hesse
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
-William James
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
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Books about Class
