Darwinism Quote by Julian Barnes

“Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human…

— Julian Barnes

“They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually…

— E.M. Forster

“it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women. Except, of course, in middle-class life. But…

— Oscar Wilde

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

“At the lower end of the social scale, as well as among the gentry, enterprise and social mobility were part of the pattern in…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Friedrich Engels

“The dominating idea of English society was not cultivate virtue but to avoid scandal.”

— Edward Short

“We in the West are accustomed to thinking that humans are all basically the same underneath our different cultural clothing, that the concerns the…

— Philip Cushman

“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a mind that…

— C.S. Lewis

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

— Patricia Piccinini