Tags: self-actualization academia meritocracy intellectualism graduate-school upper-class
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
Lynn SheeneTags: fashion elegance details upper-class
I noticed, rich people never toss away their pennies in their driveways, middle-class always chuck them there, and stray dogs lick up what little pennies they find on poverty ground.
Anthony LiccioneTags: middle-class upper-class lower-class penny-earned-is-a-penny-saved penny-pinchers value-of-a-penny
Through their donations and work for voluntary organizations, the charitable rich exert enormous influence in society. As philanthropists, they acquire status within and outside of their class. Although private wealth is the basis of the hegemony of this group, philanthropy is essential to the maintenance and perpetuation of the upper class in the United States. In this sense, nonprofit activities are the nexus of a modern power elite.
Teresa OdendahlTags: philanthropy charity non-profit clinton hegemony upper-class power-elite
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
Robert B. ReichTags: wealth class government privilege poor middle-class upper-class
Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.
Sergio TroncosoTags: class materialism crossing-borders rich-people literature-and-politics upper-class wealth-and-virtues sergio-troncoso
He’s [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day’s work in his life.
Bob DoleTags: privilege elite upper-class george-herbert-walker-bush
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