Children Quote by Anonymous

“The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon…

— George Orwell

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

“The most striking fact of the day was the misery of the industrial proletariat. Despite the growth of the economy, or perhaps in part…

— Thomas Piketty

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of…

— Hermann Hesse

“My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the…

— Hermann Hesse

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the…

— Daniel Defoe

“Because some people dressed more expensively and lived in a higher stratum of society, it did not make them less human. They were born…

— Barbara Cartland

“There were many of the upper and noble classes who had also found this alluring lifestyle completely irresistible; so many, many folks – from…

— Ted Anthony Roberts

“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched…

— Lorrie Moore