A Quote by Edmund A. Opitz

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

Edmund A. Opitz

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Edmund A. Opitz
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1914 - 2006

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Woodrow Wilson

If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.

Emile Durkheim

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Bertrand Russell

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Boris Sidis

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Saul Alinsky

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

Bertrand Russell

The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

Michel Foucault

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.

Wendell Phillips

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.

Peace Pilgrim

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

Frank Mankiewicz

Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.

John C. Calhoun

We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social role of consumption. We display our class membership and solidify our class positioning in large part through money, through what we have. Consumption is a way of verifying what you have and earn.

Juliet B. Schor

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

Carroll Quigley

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