Conventional wisdom Quote by Amartya Sen

“The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The conventional wisdom says that societies seem more civilized than they actually are.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

“it appears that my bourgeois education inculcated hopelessly false notions of taste and morality, and along with them the pressing need to disseminate them…

— Elizabeth Mavor

“The world tends to recognize the unique and the loud, the rich and the self-serving, not those who do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

— Vicki Myron

“Elites are always indifferent and unconcerned to the plight of common people.”

— Jeffrey Fry

“Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.”

— Bryant McGill

“The failure of language—the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection—fed the ruling class’s belief that it was endangered from below.”

— Robert Hughes

“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes…

— Anthony Sampson