Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.
Bill Maher

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Vladimir Lenin

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
Dave Barry

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
Jim Carrey

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone