John Dewey Quotes

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Money doesn't buy class.

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

Chivalry only worked with men of the same class.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.