"A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life."

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Source : "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

Anthony Crosland

#Class Quotes #Two Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.”
“I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident today, to understand those parallels and, from there, begin ta be a part of the wave of hope to change things for the better.”

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“Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.”
“When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
“Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.”
“It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.”
“It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.”
“I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.”

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