{"quotes":[{"text":"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man,' without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["classification","clichés","dignity","discrimination","double standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","individuality","misogyny","self-determination","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":2459,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["avoidance","benefits","classification","doors","exploitation","friends","friendship","hypocrisy","life-lessons","loyalty","people","selection","social-classes","social-gaps","social-ladder","society"],"id":66973,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adjective","classification","creativity","genius","history","intelligence","noun","variation"],"id":98445,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["balance","blood","class","classification","division","dream","equal","equality","food","happiness","harmonic","harmony","honor","human","income","justive","needs","occupy","peace","pulse","race","requirements","segegation","skills","space","survival","survive","truth","water","world","world-peace"],"id":108164,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, I.E. In the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.","author":"Roy A. Crowson","tags":["ity","classification","fundamental","material","materialism","math","mathematics","measure","purpose","science","study","taxonomy","universe"],"id":118023,"author_id":"Roy+A.+Crowson"},{"text":"We aren't human.'Yes. We. Are.' His voice turns fierce. 'I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["alienation","caste","caste-system","classification","humanity","labeling","labels","oppression","outcast","outcasts","taxonomy"],"id":168621,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigotry","classification","close-mindedness","creativity","disservice","imagination","intelligence","knowledge","minds","open-mindedness","thoughts","window","wisdom"],"id":178576,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["categorization","classification","individuality","stereotypes"],"id":279507,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambitions","classification","contentment","desire","discontentment","emotion","enjoyment","feeling","fun","itch","life","lifestyle","living","longing","meaninglessness","passions","pleasure","scratch","sin","urge","vanity","want"],"id":295894,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.","author":"Claire Robertson","tags":["caliper","classes","classification","man","science"],"id":324946,"author_id":"Claire+Robertson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}