#asses

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#least #most #noticed #rich #studied

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#channels #community #connects #functioning #human

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#certain #certain extent #everything #extent #fairytale

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#approach #assessment #critical #current #elite

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. ↗

— John Ruskin

#classes #divided #hour #into #time

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#always #ambiguity #better #candid #felt

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#denied #desertion #enough #facilities #good

I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#had #i #kind #lot #people

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#had #i #introverted #kind #lot