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«We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.»

Author: Ben Hecht (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Manners | Keywords: bawdy, caste, castes, caste system, crooks, privileged, social system, social systems

«The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.»

Author: Claude Levi-Strauss (Philosopher) | Keywords: castes, caste system, concomitant, concomitants, empires, enlightenment, exploitation, favored, grading, integration, large numbers, phenomenon, political system, The Creation

«This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in caste system, some persons are forced to carry on the prescribed callings which are not their choice.»

Author: B. R. Ambedkar (Politician) | Keywords: carry on, caste, castes, caste system, legal, legal system, obtains, prescribed, prescribes

«We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.»

Author: William Faulkner (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: caste, castes, caste system, degrees, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, Free to Choose, hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, military rank, rank

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