Top 1200 Upper-Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.

Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

It's just something that God blessed me with. I've got power, so it really don't matter what weight class I'm in. I'm still going to have the same power as I had at any weight class I'm in.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

If I don't trim the upper lip, my wife wouldn't kiss me. You have to take into account her needs as well.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

The BJP members and their leadership have realized that the Bahujan Samaj Party's policies are not anti-upper caste.

I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.

It was very controversial actually, because basically, Lion In The Grass was also a course that you were receiving college credit for. So it was like he was taking a class, but then the class which also has a teacher and everything, was competing with bands that weren't in classes.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo.

I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

I have had a place in New York in the musicians' district on the Upper West Side since 1986.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

I wanted to be a physical therapist because I had torn up my knee and thought it was interesting with the rehab and whatever. I did kinesiology, and after the first four days of class, I dropped out because I was like, 'This ain't the class for me!'

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

When you grow up in America today, most schools don't teach you about money and investing. You could literally take a class in woodshop or auto in high school and not take a class on money.

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Zidane was just so majestic on the ball, relaxed. He oozed class, and I loved watching him. I remember France against Brazil in 2006. One of those game, I just couldn't believe the class of him.

I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots.

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

When you're using your upper body to live, you get to know how to move every muscle.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are regulations.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

I went to school like any other regular student till Class VIII, and my favourite subject was math. From Class IX, things got a little difficult to manage. I was inclined towards studies, but then I also had to give time to badminton.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.