Average Order

Famous quotes containing the words average and/or order:

“Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)

“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)