Class quotes

Class

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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer

"The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy."

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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary

"By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes."

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Karl Marx
Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist

"Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."

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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic

"Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element."

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Angela Davis Political Activist, Scholar
Class

"The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb."

Class Process Empowerment
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Oscar Romero Archbishop, Activist
Class

"When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own."

Class Causes Sides
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Class

"As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized."

Race Class Sisterhood
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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
Class

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."

Men Class Safety
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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher
Class

"Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization."

Fighting Class Knowledge
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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Class

"The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class."

Way Class Teaching
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Rich Mullins Musician
Class

"I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself. And, if on meeting someone, right away you recognize what they are, listen to them anyway'."

Thinking Class Meeting Someone
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Frank Sinatra Singer, Actor
Class

"A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race."

Strong Race Class
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Class

"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud."

Class Succeed Objective Truth
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Class

"If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony."

Country Law Class
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Class

"The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."

Men Class Mob Rule
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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
Class

"It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class."

Class Clothes Essence
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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
Class

"It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically."

Would Be Class Educational
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Friedrich Engels Philosopher, Political Theorist
Class

"All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development."

Struggle Class Development
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Friedrich Engels Philosopher, Political Theorist
Class

"What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor."

Doe Class Life And Death
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Abraham Maslow Psychologist
Class

"You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities."

Firsts Class Unhappy
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Friedrich Engels Philosopher, Political Theorist
Class

"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."

Class States Republic
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