AJ Tracey Quotes

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

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Language does not make one an elite.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

I think class is still an issue in this country.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.