Community Quote by Sean Lock

The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge…

— Marshall McLuhan

All around me, I saw people who were taught by their parents, as I was, to just toe the line, not ruffle the feathers,…

— Simu Liu

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand…

— Mao Zedong

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as…

— Dallas Willard

“Society at large is staggeringly obtuse. If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves.…

— Kerri Maniscalco

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the…

— George Packer

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see…

— William Hazlitt

I think people have this perception of the life that I lead, or that we lead, of drivers, the high life. It's not that.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the…

— Michelle Alexander

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