Advantage Quote by Samuel Johnson

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has…

— Samuel Johnson

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is…

— Samuel Johnson

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment,…

— Steven Pinker

I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle class, to…

— Kory Stamper

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow…

— Hannah More

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect…

— James Madison

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

— Anonymous

“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to spend billions…

— Howard Zinn

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to…

— Damian Lewis