“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Jane hardly noticed them: for though she was theoretically an extreme democrat, no social class save her own had yet become a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“Completely oblivious to either the angry mob around her or to her own nakedness, the woman walked right up to Roan and,… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Always remain calm and unruffled, no matter what happens. If your coachman has a heart attack, your carriage crashes, your hat blows… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“One of the substantive policy issues raised in the Constitution discussion (primarily in letters rather than public meetings, it seems) was the… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Habermas (1971–1973) described ideology as motivated false consciousness of social classes. He outlined the potential resolution of this false consciousness by means… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“Strong community is formed by powerful common experiences, as when people survive a flood or fight together in a battle. When they… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Social class has worked for years. Born into the right family, go to the right schools, even if you're not super bright… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In social class issues today, our professor held up a black book and was like, 'This book is red,' and we were… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
“They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
“The Dark Cloud Is the criticism you face because you don’t want to kiss ass Is the rage you experience when people… — Aida Mandic Copy Share Image
In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
“When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something… — Evan D.G. Fraser Copy Share Image
I can understand how people would despise my image and my father's persona. My father's image amongst the poorest of people, those… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
