Burden Quote by Lewis Mumford

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to…

— Lewis Mumford

“There is something breathtakingly condescending, as well as inhumane, about the sacrificing of anyone, especially children, on the altar of 'diversity' and the virtue…

— Richard Dawkins

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over…

— Abigail Disney

“The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism,…

— John Dominic Crossan

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of…

— Jacques Ellul

“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is…

— Jeremy Seabrook

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be…

— Elizabeth Carter

Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

— Robert Zend

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found…

— Industrial Workers of the World

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

— Eric Jay Beck

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

— Andrew Carnegie

“The cultivation of consumer spirituality is the antithesis of a sacrificial, "deny yourself" congregation.”

— Eugene H. Peterson