"Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious."

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Source : "The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages" by Mary Manning Cleveland, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 10, 2014.

Arthur Young

#Class Quotes #Idiot Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker's incomparable legacy.”
“And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.”
“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”
“For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.”
“To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.”
“Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.”

Source : Robert W. Jenson (2014). “Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“On to the Next Dream is so outlandish. I call it absurdist fiction, because the story is utter hyperbole. The story builds to such an exaggerated and ridiculous pitch that there's no way it can be true - and yet, because it's based on the current cultural climate, it feels as if it is.”
“We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine and feminine principles: what man is without any female attribute and what woman never demonstrates any masculine characteristics?”

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