"The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations."

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Clive James

#Essence Quotes #Class Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.”

Source : Lecture to Oxford Farming Conference, www.marklynas.org. January 3, 2013.
“Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Source : Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
“Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.”

Source : George Gamow (1970). “My world line; an informal autobiography”, Viking Adult
“I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect but no known religion is perfect; and because history and science show us that known religions have not been revealed but have been evolved from other traditions.”

Source : Robert Blatchford (1917). “God and My Neighbour”
“Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.”
“What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'”
“I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.”

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