#class

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes. ↗

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

#money #wealth #money

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#human-nature #nature

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will #respect

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ↗

— Mark Twain

#classic #reading #people

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#wonder

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. ↗

— Mao Tse-tung

#revolution #violence #violence

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response ↗

— Winston Churchill

#retort #responsibility

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#carbohydrates #diabesity #dr-hyman #dr-robert-lustig #labor

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#funny-but-true #funny

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. ↗

— Jeffrey D. Sachs

#condition #human #maldistribution #poor #poverty