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«We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
bawdy, caste, castes, caste system, crooks, privileged, social system, social systems
«The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
device, extinction, government of the United, government of the United States, in perpetuity, Maintaining, perpetuity, privileged
«The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Patriotism,
Time
| Keywords:
advocated, advocating, approaching, be born, classes, deepest, fast, happened, have happened, insult, interest, Interesting Times, offer, particular, patriot, patriotism, plunder, plundered, plundering, plunders, privileged, system, The Advocate, The Patriot
«The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
aristocracy, Band of, blunting, concede, conceded, concedes, conceding, perceptions, privileged, slaveholder, slaveholders
«The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.»
«The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.»
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