"Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Class Quotes #Down And Quotes #Rich Quotes

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.”
“Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.”

Source : "In Lucia's Eyes". Book by Arthur Japin, www.npr.org. 2006.
“I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.”
“I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.”
“Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes”
“I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.”

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