Quotes of: Upper-class Keyword

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, an...

Mara Wilson

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for...

Andrew O'Hagan

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical fac...

Shekhar Kapur

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

Ernest Mandel

Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear this sort of rhetoric from Labour, rather than the Tor...

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

Barack Obama

I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

Natalie du Toit

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

Harry Mathews

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

John Hodgman

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Leonard Boswell

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

Kelly Rutherford

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Alan Furst

I was the class clown type of guy.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I come from a very working-class background.

Clive Owen

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Albert Camus

To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears merry and playful; but to say one goes on vacation is to speak the language of the ruling class. comes from the same root as and reflects wha...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

bell hooks

I was a class clown since second grade.

Eric Andre

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

Gilles Duceppe