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“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Want Firsts Character Common Class Comfort All Things Including Satisfied Luxury Latter Urgent First Class

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.”

“The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.”

World Persons Names Pleasure Class Knowing Comfort Ruins Chiefs Insult Rejoice Consolation Respectable Resent Misanthrope Sagacity Grumbling

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.”

Ifs Use Growth Effort Class Style Circumstances Comfort Comfortable Standards Population Accustomed Population Growth

Author:Millicent Fawcett

“As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.”

Real Moving Used Class Risk Industry Comfort Comfortable Institutions Investment Accepted Core Assets Estates Spectrum Matured Moving Up

Author:Richard Price

“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.”

People Play Race Class Comfort Prejudice Plenty Ease

Author:Gordon Allport

“If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Mind Humans Wells Christian Natural Class Hell Teacher Comfort Okay Aids Physics Fringe Alright Lunatic Human Thought Perfectly Natural Science Teacher Science Class

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?”

“For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”

Class Middle Comfort All Things Optimism Fats Hated Contentment Middle Class Mediocrity Prosperous Cursed Steppenwolf

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel