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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority. — © Richard Ojeda
I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
I think anything we do outside of Gym Class Heroes still falls under the Gym Class Heroes umbrella. There's really no method to the madness. With Gym Class, it's more of a democratic process, and when I'm working on solo stuff, it's just me, either working with producers or sitting in a room by myself. They balance and complement each other.
Borderlands' asks you to pick a class, and once you've chosen that character class, you've committed yourself to that game session.
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, 'Didi, will you be my Valentine today?'
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women. — © Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.
I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.
I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!
There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers
That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).
In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less.
I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.
I don't throw money away. First class tickets are very expensive. Why should I fly first class if I can fly business, which is the same thing? I would only fly first class if the ticket included access to some sort of special compartment that could save me if there was any crash.
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.
Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.
I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class. — © Lewis H. Lapham
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
Asa Briggs was a historian of class history, so he felt obligated to bring in his driver. That's the English class thing that is much weaker now.
They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
There are only two classes - first class and no class.
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. — © Gerald Brenan
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time.
I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.
I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.
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