"Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under……" — Matthew Arnold
"Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class."
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has…
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long…
— Henry George
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On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my…
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The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing…
— John Trudell
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There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection…It…
— Queen Victoria
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The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves…
— James Risen
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Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for…
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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