There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In the future, however, we may see real gaps in physical and cognitive abilities opening between an upgraded upper class and the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number… — Carl I. Hagen Copy Share Image
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale,… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“If such algorithms consistently outperform human capitalists, we might end up with an algorithmic upper class owning most of our planet.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear… — Malcolm X 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
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
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 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
“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
To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition,… — Nick McDonell 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
I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at… — Jack D. Forbes 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been… — Stacy Schiff 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
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
“Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore… — Ian Brady 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
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 aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
I think I'm too indoctrinated. I'm going to use everything I can, and I think if I used an advertisement in that… — Lynne Tillman 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
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