"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."

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Sinclair Lewis

#Class Quotes #Barbarians Quotes #Century Quotes

“If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.”
“Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.”
“Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.”
“If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
“It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.”
“People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.”
“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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