"What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary."

Fanon, Frantz | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods."

Stein, Gertrude | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise."

Dante Alighieri | Middle Class | 1 bookmarks

"We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."

Orwell, George | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers."

James, William | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly."

Trilling, Lionel | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."

Shaw, George Bernard | Middle Class | 1 bookmarks

"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."

Hesse, Hermann | Middle Class | 1 bookmarks

"The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate."

Aristotle | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."

Thackeray, William M. | Middle Class | 0 bookmarks

"Truth is reality."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Truth | 0 bookmarks

"It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Perseverance | 1 bookmarks

"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Enjoyment | 0 bookmarks

"Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Enemies | 0 bookmarks

"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Freedom | 0 bookmarks

"It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Self-knowledge | 0 bookmarks

"Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Adversity | 0 bookmarks

"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Action | 1 bookmarks

"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Imagination | 0 bookmarks

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Choice | 0 bookmarks

"To have character is to be big enough to take life on."

Richards, Mary Caroline | Character | 0 bookmarks

"It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning."

Adalphos, General | Change | 3 bookmarks

"The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity."

Peters, Thomas J. | Praise | 1 bookmarks

"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition."

Abernathy | Change | 1 bookmarks

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston | Change | 13 bookmarks

"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

Ovid | Change | 2 bookmarks

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Asimov, Isaac | Change | 3 bookmarks

"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha | Change | 10 bookmarks

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

Dixon, Jack | Focus | 8 bookmarks

"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past."

Peters, Thomas J. | Change | 1 bookmarks

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

Peters, Thomas J. | Imagination | 1 bookmarks

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

Disraeli, Benjamin | Change | 4 bookmarks

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard | Change | 80 bookmarks

"Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change."

Peters, Thomas J. | Excellence | 2 bookmarks