Antagonism Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

— Richard G. Wilkinson

People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't…

— Lynne Tillman

“If all human beings in a population either are declared equal in their native strengths and rights, or else are persuaded to believe this,…

— Robert A. Nisbet

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that…

— James Gray

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted…

— Mary McGrory

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and…

— John Ruskin

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

— Nicola Sturgeon

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for…

— Anonymous

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the…

— Aristotle

Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit unwillingly. It…

— Hans F. Sennholz

The happiness of a nation is not collective unless the nation is one of clowns. Neither is unhappiness...

— Mariana Fulger

The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to…

— Thomas Jefferson