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“The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.”

Political Sex Class Generations Movement Battle Achievement Tiny Squares Egyptian Friction Political Movements Tahrir Square

Book:Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

Source: Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

“In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.”

Should Culture Social Ability Class Equal Achievement Expectations Aspiration Affected Motivated Prospects Social Class

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.”

“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.”

Persons Life Is Goal Class Middle Achievement Projects Privilege Complicated Middle Class Stable Bourgeois Refined Life Goal Uncomplicated Goals And Achievement

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.”

Class Achievement Rose Backgrounds Risen Lower Class Foreground

Author:Marvin L. Cohen

“'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.”

Mean Soul Facts Use Action Enjoy Class Records Style Genius Circumstances Taste Achievement Clothes Claims Individuality Gossip Mediocre Hallmark Snob Conventionality Personal Taste

Author:James Hillman

“If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.”

People Ifs Want Doe Important Whole Kids Wealth Poor Class Poverty Achievement Important Things Income African American Gaps Working Class Better Life Achievement Gap American Poverty

Author:Barack Obama

“The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.”

Reality Class Middle Becoming Achievement Middle Class Becoming More Relics Great Achievement

Author:Jon Meacham

“Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.”

“Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure that all students can receive the college and career ready, world class education they deserve, no matter where they live. I applaud the states efforts that got us here today and the work of NGA, CCSSO and Achieve in supporting this important achievement.”

“One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.”

“I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.”

People World Happens Three Class Watches Society Achievement Happenings Majority Notion Things Happen Divides Overwhelming Make Things Happen

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.”

Class Effects Position Students Achievement Raises Extras Grades Relative Ranking

Author:James S. Coleman

“Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.”

Firsts Wells Two Class Seeing Tree Civilization Achievement Artistic Lemons First Class

Author:Andrew Sarris

“Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.”

Men Use Class Achievement Symbols Symbolic

Book:Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.”

Social Results Powerful Existence Class Achievement Evidence Claims Invisible Insane Attributes Modest Bureaucracy Employed Social Life Infallible

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions.”