“So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!” IfsMenMayDifferentEarthNamesNumbersClassWonderfulTruth IsBallsTinyVarietyCollectivesBelongingMagnificenceImmensity Book:Thoughts Source: Thoughts
“Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.” IdeasRealityFoundSexRaceAttitudeClassDangerousCivilizationTruth IsPerceptionAttributesEthnicityPostmodernRace Ethnicity Book:The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994 Source: The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994
“70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.” PeopleChildrenCountryStatesFactsOpportunityParentBornUnitedNumbersClassPovertyUnited StatesMiddleGoes OnTruth IsIncomeUncomfortableCanadaMiddle ClassOther Countries Author:Marco Rubio
“We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.” ProblemPoliticalAbilityClassEconomicTruth IsProfoundScalesMagnitudeEconomic History Author:Hugh Hendry
“The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.” BelieveHumansIdeasEarthChallengesHuman BeingsPowerfulClassTruth IsVictimOur SocietySurvivorPrivileged Author:Wendy McElroy
“The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party supporter, I would argue that middle-class black people are voting against their interests oftentimes.” PeopleStillsBlackInterestPartyClassMiddleTruth IsVoteGreenArguingVotingMiddle ClassBlack PeopleSupporterGreen Party Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.” ClassMediaMovementStudentsTruth IsLateSoldierAntiwarSixtyWorking Class Author:Bill Ayers