Famous quotes containing the words social and/or standing:
“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. Its an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.”
—George Grosz (18931959)
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