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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

— Charles Dickens

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

— Edmund Burke

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

— U Thant

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

— Sallust

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

— William Howard Taft

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

— Christian Lous Lange

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

— Liz Phair

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

— Derek Blasberg

✗Opposing Perspectives

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

— Sheridan Smith

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau