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“The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
― Gore Vidal

“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“I must endure, fighting the temptation simply to become slack-jawed like most of my school 'peers' (they wish!), who will themselves into a collective, vacant, trancelike state for the duration of each class. (Although I sometimes secretly envy their ability to empty their minds completely for a full fifty minutes, reanimating only at the sound of a bell, like Pavlov's dogs...)”
― Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

“The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what to do with their
money; the idea that the successful become filled up with futility, and that
those born successful are poor and little as well as rich - the idea, in short,
of the disconsolateness of the rich - is, in the main, merely a way by which
those who are not rich reconcile themselves to the fact. Wealth in America is
directly gratifying and directly leads to many further gratifications. To be
truly rich is to possess the means of realizing in big ways one's little whims
and fantasies and sicknesses....”
― C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

“To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.”
― Eugene V. Debs

“The Keju is a ruse to keep uneducated peasants right where they’ve always been. You slip past the Keju, they’ll find a way to expel you anyway. The Keju keeps the lower classes sedated. It keeps us dreaming. It’s not a ladder for mobility; it’s a way to keep people like me exactly where they were born.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“To oppose one class perpetually to another â€� young against old, manual labor against brain-worker, rich against poor, woman against man â€� is to split the foundations of the State; and if the cleavage runs too deep, there remains no remedy but force and dictatorship. If you wish to preserve a free democracy, you must base it â€� not on classes and categories, for this will land you in the totalitarian State, where no one may act or think except as the member of a category. You must base it upon the individual Tom, Dick and Harry, and the individual Jack and Jill â€� in fact, upon you and me.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

“This decorum and etiquette, the whole self-stylization of the upper class, demand among other things that one does not allow oneself to be portrayed as one really is, but according to how one must appear to conform with certain hallowed conventions, remote from reality and the present time. Etiquette is the highest law not merely for the ordinary mortal, but also for the king, and in the imagination of this society even the gods accept the forms of courtly ceremonial.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

“The middle and working classes no longer think of the present society as structured around classes. Current opinion holds that the rich are deserving and the poor are not, while an incalculable number of people linger between the categories. A huge section of public opinion in the Western world tends to regard oppression and exploitation as residual abuses, not inherent features of a specific social order. The prevailing society is neither rationally analyzed nor forcefully challenged; it is prudently psychoanalyzed and politely coaxed, as though social problems emerge from erratic individual behavior.”
― Murray Bookchin, The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

“The idea that real and serous learning is something practiced only by a small elite is stubborn and hard to displace.”
― Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

“So these two classes, rising professionals and sinking workers, which a couple of generations ago were close in income and not so far apart in mores, no longer believe they belong to the same country. But they can’t escape each other, and their coexistence breeds condescension, resentment, and shame.”
― George Packer

“Há quem diga que a pobreza é o melhor aguilhão para o artista. Esses nunca lhe sentiram a ponta nas carnes. Não imaginam o quanto a pobreza rebaixa. Expõe-nos a humilhações sem fim, corta-nos as asas, corrói-nos a alma como um cancro. Não é riqueza que se pede, mas o necessário para manter-se a dignidade, para trabalhar sem embaraços, ser generoso, franco e independente.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Neno la Kristo ndilo litakalotufanya tuongoke na ndilo litakalotutoa duniani. Tunapokwenda kinyume chake tunaanza kuweka matabaka miongoni mwetu sisi wenyewe.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Remove all the classes of uniform you wear on your eyes, ears, and body and read, you will then see the art, and the principle, and law. It will also make you a human.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“How the WASPs loved to nickname their children after the workaday trades: Tinker. Cooper. Smithy. Maybe it was to hearken back to their seventeenth-century New England bootstraps--the manual trades that had made them stalwart and humble and virtuous in the eyes of their Lord. Or maybe it was just a way of politely understating their predestination to having it all.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Classes as chairs-row, in a conception of high and low categories, determine the procedural system; it matters nothing. However, when that sort classes exist in mind and thought, fall under distinctive conduct, which shows, the humiliation of humanity; it matters and touches the seriousness and consequences.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second one.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

“The function of hegemony is to transform ideology into culture, into a "world view" that is seen as "normal" and "natural" by everyone from the controlling classes to the subordinate classes. Today, the major means of establishing the hegemony are the mass media.”
― Rupert Woodfin, Marxism: A Graphic Guide

“The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“Their political leaders lavish praise on them,

even while granting their bosses a liability shield so they can’t be sued.

The carrot and the stick: if they decide to quit, rather than continue to take chances, laws have been passed to deny them the same economic relief that other Americans enjoy during the pandemic.

It incentivizes them to remain where they are and to keep dissecting meat for nonessential Americans.

Many nonessential workers get to work from home.

They sometimes make exponentially more money than the essential workers do.”
― Gary J Floyd

“Most students conceive studying as a burden and not as a regular activity, so the result piled up concepts with just a month remaining for exams. That being said the stress and frustration that comes along is natural. Thankfully we’ve got a walkthrough which will help you create a perfect and efficient study schedule. So let’s get started.

#1 Define your objective
#2 Buffer is important
#3 Avoid long study hours
#4 Productive Breaks
#5 Test yourself
#6 Re-learn
#7 Practice and revision”
― SmrtGuru

“Remove all the classes of uniform you wear on your eyes, ears, and body and read; you will then see the art, and the principle, and law. It will also make you a human.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Because we make our own budget, we can implement classes that most schools don’t have, like gardening. I don’t know how many children are learning how to grow their own food anymore, but I consider it a vital resource.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Homeschooling on a Budget

“Art and craft classes are not just about creating something beautiful, they're about discovering the beauty within yourself.”
― TalentGum

“The one thing that inspires fearless devotion in followers is devotion from their leader.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“I always love to start my class or discussion with generated questions! When an expectation is known, meeting needs becomes easier.”
― Daniel ANIKOR

“It's always the history teachers' children that cause trouble. How wise the government had been to do away with history lessons sixteen years ago and replace them with future lessons. In future lessons, the pupils are taught--by means of exciting and visually impressive methods--that in the future everything will be good, because--this being the core message--in the future all problems will be easily solved through technology.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, QualityLand

“Sleep is rest for the rich, but laziness for the poor.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain