"If there is a class war-and there is-it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones."

-- Maurice Cowling

#War Quotes #Class Quotes #Skills Quotes

“You could at least complain,â€ I say. â€œI adore complaining. It calms the nerves.”
“We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.”
“The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.”

Source : Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.387, London, Trübner and Company
“I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?”
“The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.”
“I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. This is a period of great business dislocation, but that means it's also the time to try new things. This will be a challenge for existing companies. But the behaviors of smart companies can be learned.”
“My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.”
“The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.”

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