{"quotes":[{"text":"Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["class-struggle","war","women"],"id":12586,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"},{"text":"Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["beauty","class-struggle","excess","french-revolution","grandeur","louis-xiv","paris","wastefulness"],"id":20568,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"She wondered which would be worse -- to belong to the group assigned to lifelong drudgery, or to be on the other side, thinking you deserved everything the universe by sheer good luck had tossed in your lap, never realizing your whole life was based on lies.","author":"Jo Victor","tags":["alex","class-literature","class-struggle","drudgery","lies","mistress","privilege","romance"],"id":21256,"author_id":"Jo+Victor"},{"text":"In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.","author":"Pew Research Center","tags":["1-percent","99-percent","age","age-difference","aging","american-dream","baby-boomers","boomers","class","class-struggle","economics","economy","employment","labor","labor-activism","laboring-class","millenials","occupy","occupy-wall-street","protesters","public-policy","unemployment","working-class-america"],"id":72434,"author_id":"Pew+Research+Center"},{"text":"I’ve always thought that was the lamest argument—that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so other people can feel better about themselves. What a selfish way to look at the world.","author":"Josephine Angelini","tags":["class-struggle","goddess","poor","poverty"],"id":82597,"author_id":"Josephine+Angelini"},{"text":"Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...And we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from 'Descendants of the Eminent').","author":"Tim Cummings","tags":["addiction","afterlife","astrology","brothers","children-of-celebrities","class-struggle","dolls","epilepsy","gay-and-lesbian","ghosts","goth-lifestyle","hollywood","jocks","love","mothers-and-daughters","plays","poetry","progeria","screenplays","suicide","teenagers","war"],"id":128966,"author_id":"Tim+Cummings"},{"text":"Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["capitalism","class-struggle"],"id":146401,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!","author":"William Dean Howells","tags":["class-struggle","humor","youth"],"id":164270,"author_id":"William+Dean+Howells"},{"text":"Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.","author":"Vikas Swarup","tags":["class-struggle","disappointment","dreams","goals","poverty","rich-and-poor","wealth"],"id":171716,"author_id":"Vikas+Swarup"},{"text":"The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which has numerous trained cadres, changes men and programmes and, with greater speed than is achieved by the subordinate classes, reabsorbs the control that was slipping from its grasp. Perhaps it may make sacrifices, and expose itself to an uncertain future by demagogic promises; but it retains power, reinforces it for the time being, and uses it to crush its adversary and disperse his leading cadres, who cannot be be very numerous or highly trained.","author":"Antonio Gramsci","tags":["class-struggle","hegemony","organizing","revolution"],"id":189710,"author_id":"Antonio+Gramsci"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}