Ability Quote by Lionel Trilling

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal…

— Louis Auchincloss

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real…

— Jo Walton

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's…

— Jo Walton

I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

— Anonymous

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of…

— John Rawls

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter

The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“People think that the word "class" involves the color black, wearing Chanel No. 5 and carrying a Louis Vuitton. The word "class" and "classy",…

— C. JoyBell C

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

— Michael Marmot

“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it…

— Michael Pollan