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Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.”

Wells Littles Feelings Wisdom Reality Science Nature Community Space Class Human Nature Unity Individuality Cosmos

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.”

Has Beens Matter Emotion Class Labor Curiosity African American Borders Internals Amazed Anglo Saxon

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.”

Giving Firsts Black White Class Mass Consequence Discrimination Posterity First Class Frantic Jamaica Stampede

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.”

Courses Natural Class Bags Rushing Aristocracy Passed Away

Book:The French Revolution: a History

Source: The French Revolution: a History

“... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.”

People Mind Firsts Two Self Reason Feelings Together Poetry Class Willing Poet Right Now Critical Intense Reason Why Poetry Is Sixty Indulgence First Class Self Indulgence Intense Feelings

Author:May Sarton

“There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.”

Chance Race Class Conditions Scales Bigotry Deceiving

Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.”

“I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.”

Ifs Men Should Years Believe Humans Done Lasts I Believe Sex My Own Known Class Struggle Rights Should Have Human Rights Thirty Denied Continents Devoted Behalf Thirty Years Legal Rights

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.”

Class Corpses Bourgeoisie Carrier Banality Chromosomes

Book:America

Source: America

“American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.”

Men America Three Class Economy Team Members Labor Destruction Management Principal Working Man

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.”

Way Doe Has Beens America Choices Causes Wonder Class Cost Activity Intellectual Tradition Letters Divided Honorable Vocation Uneasy American Society

Author:James A. Baldwin

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.”

Class Food Diets Salmon Staples Cider

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.”

Giving Mind Humans Country Certain Education Class Highest Educational Improvement Human Mind Establishment Truest

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.”

“A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.”

Fall Class Middle Football Normal Soccer Knees Chairs Awkward Restless Playing Football Falling Off Playing Soccer

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“However, the danger in [socially unbalanced relationships] is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.”

Men Ends Light Night Order Class Danger One Day Tragedy Calm Prisoner Mistress Day And Night Subjection Unbalanced

Author:Marcel Proust

“Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.”

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”

Knows Book School Language Results Class Boys Changed English Language Eighteen Private School

Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.”

Whole Purpose Cities Class Founding

Author:Socrates

“No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.”

Earth Beauty Class Lonely Majority Silent Distinction Desirable Abolish Class Distinction

Author:John Mortimer

“Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.”

“Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.”

“The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.”

People Politics Community Leadership Class Comedy Human Nature Gay Equal Ethics Human Rights Individuality Ideology Equal Rights Mayors Torches Gay People Partisanship Sochi

Author:David Letterman

“Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.”

Ifs Class Morning Thirds Tourists Passengers Deck Overcast

Author:Spike Milligan

“There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.”

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