“It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“After three days of hibernation….Šarlatová, the red witch, finally awoke.” — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class?… — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly,… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives… — Jonathan Jakubowicz Copy Share Image
The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people,… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A French conversation starter is more subtle. Work is considered boring, money is out of the question, politics comes later (and only… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“So long as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase “the American dream.” The American dream is not just… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“Liberty yes - but equality for all men? The end of all distinctions of social class? Such thinking smacked of anarchy, and… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The unhappy priest was breathing hard; sincere horror at the foreseen dispersal of Church property was linked with regret at his having… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“the bourgeoisie wanted to insert something more than just the negative law of “this is not yours” between the worker and the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Soon after this meeting with the Morelands came the period of crisis leading up to the Abdication, one of those public events… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part… — J.F.C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
