Quotes About Stratification

#1. 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

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

Mohsin Hamid

#3. 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

#4. To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.

Eraldo Banovac

#5. Evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

Jan Smuts

#6. The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Dorothy Allison

#7. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

Walter Rodney

#8. If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, "the problem of the color line," then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.

Naomi Murakawa

#9. [Question: Do you feel that scientists correct themselves as often as they should?]
More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

Stephen Hawking

#10. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Thomas Aquinas

#11. Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another.

Charles Murray

#12. I think connection makes me vulnerable. Commitment makes me vulnerable, really.

Fisher Stevens

#13. The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Charles Murray

#14. If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do ... then how we talk about them matters.

Kevin Cramer

#15. Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#16. There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

Beverly Engel

#17. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

Samuel Morse

#18. 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

#19. I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Ashthon Jones