Top 1200 Class Privilege Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.

To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.

The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.

I was about six, and Liverpool had a community summer camp. They sent a few invites to my school and my age group, to my class specifically, and they were like, 'Who wants to go?' So every lad in the class put their hands up, as you'd imagine, so the only fair way was to pick names out of a hat, and luckily, my name was picked out.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.

There's a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

I have the privilege on playing at Real Madrid, which is a dream.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

I remember when the O.J. verdict was read; at my high school, all of the teachers were like, "We are stopping class right now," and turned it on and we watched it. There were people coming out of their classrooms, like, "Yeah!" Some people were like, "Nooo." I was in Spanish class.

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.

As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing to do with my gender, race or class. (Unless something good happens to me, in which case they tell me my gender, race and/or class is exactly why that thing happened).

I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their - their debt from college at a lower rate. Those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.

Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

To be an Olympic athlete is an honour, a privilege. They're so respected. This is my dream. I have to do this.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.

It is an honor and privilege to serve as a member of the 116th Congress.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.