Class Quotes

Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation, a being apart from the rest of nature. He was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalia.

Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class.

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Many eloquent men fail utterly; and they are not, as a class, generally successful.

I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.