"War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been."
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"Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers."
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"Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class."
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"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
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"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."
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"I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible."
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"I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story."
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"Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions."
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"In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class."
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"The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class."
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"It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis."
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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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"Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do."
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"Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself."
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"Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses."
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"In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end."
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"If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen."
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"I'm a warrior for the middle class."
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"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."
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"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder."
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