{"quotes":[{"text":"The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities. She is a very wise woman. To achieve serenity we have to view life not as it is measured by the world around us but as we ourselves measure it. We must accept that the scales are not at all equal.","author":"Emma Wildes","tags":["poor","rich","social-classes","wealth"],"id":6861,"author_id":"Emma+Wildes"},{"text":"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","bless","blessing","blessings","business","businesses","businessman","businessmen","businesspeople","businessperson","businesspersons","businesswoman","businesswomen","class","classes","curse","cursed","end-poverty","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","entrepreneurship","god","half-empty","half-full","humor","humour","hustle","hustle-and-bustle","hustler","hustlers","hustling","life","love","luxurious","luxury","optimism","perspective","pessimism","poor","poverty","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","riches","satire","social-class","social-classes","wealth","wealthy"],"id":21935,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["avoidance","benefits","classification","doors","exploitation","friends","friendship","hypocrisy","life-lessons","loyalty","people","selection","social-classes","social-gaps","social-ladder","society"],"id":66973,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor.","author":"John Howard Griffin","tags":["condescension","poverty","social-classes","wealth"],"id":88450,"author_id":"John+Howard+Griffin"},{"text":"Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or the very rich. A society that fosters intense dependence on commodities thus turns its unemployed into either its poor or its dependents.","author":"Ivan Illich","tags":["dependence","economics","employment","idleness","poverty","social-classes","wealth"],"id":160188,"author_id":"Ivan+Illich"},{"text":"Juice is a poor man’s dessert.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["desert","juice","poor","poverty","social-classes"],"id":175303,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abode","abodes","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","automobile","automobiles","car","cars","cheap","class","classes","compete","competition","consumerism","earn","earnings","expensive","funny","hilarious","home","homes","house","houses","humor","humorous","humour","inexpensive","joke","jokes","mansion","mansions","materialism","money","monied","neighbor","neighborhood","neighbors","neighbour","neighbourhood","neighbours","quotations","quotes","residence","resident","residents","rich","richer","salaries","salary","satire","show-off","social-class","social-classes","spirituality","wages"],"id":183658,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["children","poor","rich","social-classes"],"id":207001,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social classes and with no conflicts. I wish we had met in prehistoric times wearing cranberry leaves. I wish we had met when there were no disagreements about our bodies and no doctrinal differences. I wish we had met when the veil was not an issue and when there were no shaving blades, no hair colors and no perfumes to hide your natural smell. I wish we have met when there were no shoes to coerce our steps, no fashion and socks brands to put each of us in a certain social class. I wish we have met when there were no cars and no traffic. I wish we have met when there were no battles to be forced to see you as an unarmed knight with the heresy of currencies.","author":"jihad eltabey","tags":["love","love","peace","social-classes","wish"],"id":226637,"author_id":"jihad+eltabey"},{"text":"Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literature etc., one would have to analyse fully the social uses, legitimate or illegitimate, to which each of the arts, genres, works or institutions considered lends itself. For example, nothing more clearly affirms one's 'class', nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music.","author":"Pierre Bourdieu","tags":["art","music","social-classes","taste"],"id":249476,"author_id":"Pierre+Bourdieu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}