Quotes by Class We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole. Michael Joseph Oakeshott partygovernmentclass No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies. Michael Ignatieff politicalclasskids In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two. Michael Lind wisdomclasstwo The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job. Michael Lewis luxuryclassjobs I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons. Michael J. Fox lessonsmissingclass General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. Michael Marmot healthclassfall The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society to get its arms around it is much less. The political clout of the financial class is unbelievable. I'd say the story is darker than when I was there. When I was there it felt like a comedy - and now it feels more like a tragedy. Michael Lewis politicaltragedyclass Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago. Michael Medved collegeclassyears The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold. Michael Lewis wallclassamerica He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. Michael Lewis blessedmindclass Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will. Michael N. Castle dreamclassteacher There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich. Michael Novak escapingclassorder People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. Michael Moore collegeclasspeople The mass media are class media. Michael Pare mediapoliticalclass Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all. Michael Parenti politicalwantclass The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs! Michael O'Leary environmentalnuclearclass [The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy. Michael Parenti homeclasspeople Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. Michael Moore violenceclassjobs New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. Michael Moore citiesnew-yorkclass Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. Michael Parenti generosityimportantclass«138139140141142143144145146147148»
