In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
I would love to see no more ghettos, but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be… — Spalding Gray Copy Share Image
Like traditional upper class families, there are nannies and servants, and the children, you know, come in to say good-night before they… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still… — Deirdre Imus Copy Share Image
“Spurned by the upper class, Wood garnered support from the organized workers. Ira B. Davis denounced the Wall Street Democratic renegades, noting… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. — Rhys Bowen Copy Share Image
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. — David Frost Copy Share Image
That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut… — Steve Mnuchin Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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