Classes Quotes

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

~ John Fowles

Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.

~ Suzy Kassem

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world, the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For their holidays: the rich go see the world, the poor go see their parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

~ Eugene V. Debs

But one afternoon Lila said softly that there was nothing that could eliminate the conflict between the rich and the poor. Why?Those who are on the bottom always want to be on top, those who are on top want to stay on top, and one way or another they always reach the point where they're kicking and spitting at each other.That's exactly why problems should be resolved before violence breaks out.And how? Putting everyone on top, putting everyone on the bottom?Finding a point of equilibrium between the classes.A point where? Those from the bottom meet those from the top in the middle?Let's say yes.And those on top will be willing to go down? And those on the bottom will give up on going any higher?If people work to solve all problems well, yes. You're not convinced?No. The classes aren't playing cards, they're fighting, and it's a fight to the death.

~ Elena Ferrante

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

~ Karl Marx

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

~ Chip Kidd

Poor people do not go on holiday, they go home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.

~ Claire Robertson

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

~ Gore Vidal

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat;—so I don't believe, because I was born a democrat.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs...)

~ Beth Fantaskey

Math is made for idiots, here is what is the proccess in math class. The teacher show you few exercises, show you the formula, show you the way, say everything about the exercises and then she tell you to solve problems. So as for me the proccess is REPEAT!

~ Deyth Banger

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

~ Derrick Jensen

Chemicals are available for all classes, poor, average and rich, so far I'm average class and I have the chance and the guds to drink chemical for 1.89$.

~ Deyth Banger

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

~ Oscar Wilde