Aldous Huxley Quotes

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a) he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't ; b) he has a high IQ, but they don't.

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.