Quotes About Social Stratification

#1. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199

Shamus Rahman Khan

#2. Think of the solution, not the problem

Terry Goodkind

#3. NEVER make ISSUES out of things especially wth children...the moment they become ISSUES..they are most likely to stay in their heads as issues of their lives ! That is where most adult ISSUES come from.....

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#4. Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.

Al Davis

#5. Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Margaret Oliphant

#6. Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#7. Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

Cornell Capa

#8. There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

Ruth Rendell

#9. And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

Patty Hearst

#10. Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology,

Neil Harbisson

#11. I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

Linus Roache

#12. We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

Anthony Crosland

#13. I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

Mohsin Hamid

#14. In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

Michael Gove

#15. Between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Between the Jacob I like and the one who annoys the hell out of me.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Charles Dudley Warner

#17. Outside, it was coming on night. Twilight. "The magic time," his daddy called it, "the make-a-wish moment between the dark and the light.

Deborah Johnson