Adam Smith On Rank

"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though both necessary to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. " The Theory of Moral Sentiments. (Kindle Loc. 999)