Quotes About Classism In The Great Gatsby

#1. My God, there are times when the sexiest thing a woman can give a man is permission.

Jim Butcher

#2. Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Joseph Joubert

#3. A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon.

R.D. Laing

#4. She was both very happy and very sad.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. My goal in life was to rule my tiny, elite world, so I did.

Fisher Amelie

#6. You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Marie Corelli

#7. In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Norman McLaren

#8. Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

Carl I. Hagen

#9. Justice demands integrity. It's to have a moral universe - not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Bell Hooks

#10. It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.

Alia Shawkat

#12. I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

John Kricfalusi

#13. Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

George Papandreou