"It is already possible to imagine a society……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all…
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never…
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In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
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