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White Collar Quotes

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“Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.”
― Mozzie white collar
tags: destiny, fate, mozzie, white-collar, whitecollar
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“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
tags: capitalism, capitalist, capitalistic, capitalistic-greed, concerns, corporate, corporate-greed, corporate-profit, corruption, greed, greedy, health, human-life, plutocracy, population, powerful, rich, security, social-system, wealthy, welfare, white-collar, white-collar-crime
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David Foster Wallace
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
tags: employment, job-losses, kafkaesque, white-collar
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“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
tags: blood, capitalism, capitalismo, capitalismo-salvaje, capitalist, capitalistic, capitalistic-greed, civilization, collapse, concerns, corporate, corporate-greed, corporate-profit, corrupt, corruption, demise, end, gain, greed, greedy, health, human-life, life, money, plutocracy, population, powerful, profit, profits, rich, ruin, security, social-system, system, wealth, wealthy, welfare, white-collar, white-collar-crime
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Kathryn Hurn
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.”
― Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
tags: 50, abandon, agony, anger, angry, annapurna, anorexia, austen, back, beauty, bed, betray, bovary, brave, bronte, chatterley, cloud, comedy, contemporary, courage, crime, dante, death, decision, deep, depression, descent, desire, disappointment, divine, divorce, drama, dysfunction, elated, emotion, enchant, erotic, esteem, everest, eyre, family, father, feeling, fiction, fifty, fire, forgive, gasherbrum, greed, grief, growth, happy, hardship, heal, heartbreak, heaven, hell, help, hiking, honesty, inauthenticity, isolation, jane, journey, juicy, justice, kissed, life, literary, loneliness, lonely, loss, love, loveless, lucy, lust, mad, marriage, married, money, mother, mountaineering, moving, murder, nine, packing, pageant, passage, passion, personal, philosophy, poetry, possess, prejudice, pretty, pride, purgatory, redeem, regret, relationship, remorse, resurrect, revelation, romance, romantic, sad, secrets, self, separate, seven, sex, shades, sin, sons, soul, spirituality, stars, steamy, strong, suicide, summits, tibet, time, transformation, trapped, travel, triumph, trust, unbearable, unhappy, union, white-collar, woman, women
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“Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
tags: capitalism, capitalist, capitalistic, capitalistic-greed, civilization, collapse, concerns, corporate, corporate-greed, corporate-profit, corrupt, corruption, demise, end, greed, greedy, health, human-life, plutocracy, population, powerful, profit, rich, ruin, security, social-system, system, wealthy, welfare, white-collar, white-collar-crime
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John Lanchester
“Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.”
― John Lanchester, Capital
tags: careers, employment, jobs, office, white-collar, work
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John Ruskin
“We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.”
― John Ruskin
tags: blue-collar, thinking, white-collar, work
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George L. Mosse
“It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal to old prejudices without threatening the existing economic system. This appealed, above all, to white-collar workers and the small entrepreneurs, as some of the statistics presented in this book will demonstrate. It was their kind of revolution: the ideology would give them a new status, free them from isolation in the industrial society, and give them a purpose in life. But it would not threaten any of their vested interests; indeed it would reinforce their bourgeois predilections toward family...and restore the 'good old values' which had been so sadly dismantled by modernity.”
― George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich
tags: bourgeois, germany, hitler, industrialism, middle-class, modernity, nazism, nostalgia, pre-world-war-ii, preconceptions, prejudice, values, white-collar
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Abhijit Naskar
“There is no blue collar, no white collar, just honor. And honor is defined by character not collar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
tags: blue-collar-worker, brainy-quotes, dignity, honor, professional-life, professions, snobbery, snobs, white-collar, workplace-wisdom
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Nick Hornby
“It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humoured and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
tags: dinner-party, friends, laughter, nick-hornby, professional, snobbery, white-collar, workaholic, yuppy
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Soroosh Shahrivar
“She would also be lying to herself if she didn't admit that a Louie V hanging from her shoulder made her feel a certain type of way. Her desire to stand up for the working man had dimmed a little. Amir was the bleach to her blue-collar status. All colors eventually turn white. Or rather green.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish
tags: blue-collar, louis-vuitton, louis-vuitton-bag, money, rich-people, white-collar
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