> Snobbery becomes a serious evil when it leads to false standards of value and to tolerance of social inequality. The man who is respected merely for being the son of his father loses one of the normal incentives to useful effort. He is likely to develop views of life which attach undue importance to the accident of birth and to think that by merely existing he does enough to command respect.
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#snobbery #BertrandRussel

> #Snobbery is pride in status without pride in function. And it is an uneasy pride of status.. "Do I belong..? And does he belong? And if I am observed talking to him, will it make me seem to belong or.." It is the peculiar vice.. of bourgeois democratic societies.. legendary strongholds of snobbery are the Hollywood studios.. The dominant emotions of snobbery are uneasiness, self-consciousness, self-defensiveness, the sense that one is not quite real but can.. acquire reality.
#LionelTrilling

> .. #TheNovel is born with the appearance of money as a social element #money, the great solvent of the solid fabric of the old society, the great generator of illusion.. to say much the same thing, the novel is born in response to snobbery. #Snobbery is not the same thing as pride of class.. aristocratic pride was based ultimately on the ability to fight and administer.. pride of class may be thought of as today we think of pride of profession, toward which we are likely to be lenient.
#Novel