Culture Quote by E.M. Forster

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if…

— Friedrich Engels

“We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals…

— Guillermo del Toro

“Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches.”

— Peter Thiel

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

— Anohni

“The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and…

— Carolyn Baker

“A simple pecking order has always characterized mankind's relationship to waste: The wealthy throw out what they do not want, the poor scavenge what…

— Dan Fagin

“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.”

— Edward Luce

“Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.”

— Eric Haney

As we celebrate a culture of giving, however, we must also sharpen the question of how extreme wealth generation happens in the first place.…

— Rohini Nilekani

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution”

— Owen H Lewis

“There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.”

— John F. Kennedy