{"author":"Ellen Cushing","author_id":"Ellen+Cushing","total_quotes":2,"quotes":[{"text":"[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.","author":"Ellen Cushing","tags":["charity","class","culture","future","noblesse-oblige","obligation","philanthropy","wealth"],"id":51128,"author_id":"Ellen+Cushing"},{"text":"The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.","author":"Ellen Cushing","tags":["americans","class","dissonance","economics","income","middle-class","poverty","wealth"],"id":258567,"author_id":"Ellen+Cushing"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}