"Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization."
Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and essayist. He was born on 1905-09-05 and died on 1983-03-01. He is best known for Darkness at Noon and his political and philosophical nonfiction.