Belonging to a rapidly changing rather than a traditional society, Americans find Knowing Where You Stand harder than do most Europeans. And a yet more pressing matter, Making It, assumes crucial importance here.
Classes Quotes
Through thick and thin, boom and bust, we tenaciously hold on to the belief that we are, fundamentally, a classless society. This self-image survives even though we have the most unequal distribution of wealth in the Western world. It survives even though 1 percent of us own 40 percent of the wealth. And even though […]
I was (in America) constantly being introduced to eminent person by people who were quite unmistakably superior to these notables, and most modestly unaware of it.
There once was an entomologist who found a bug he couldn’t classify – so he stepped on it.
When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
It’s amazing to me that only populists are ever accused of class warfare. Talk about losing a grip on reality. I’ll tell you what class warfare is: When the Gingrich Republicans mandate that the IRS spend more of its resources auditing working-class people who get the Earned Income Tax Credit than it does auditing millionaires […]
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The first thing the intellect does with any object is too class it along with something else… Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would […]
Rank, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
