You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud o...f it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the mid...dle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be said that the elegant Swann's simplicity was but another, more refined form of vanity and that, like other Israelites, m...y parents' old friend could present, one by one, the succession of states through which had passed his race, from the most naive snobbishness to the worst coarseness to the finest politeness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genu...ine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »