Sid Waddell Quotes

I reckoned my accent and class would count against me; I didn't see actresses as being working-class.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

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

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.

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

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

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.

Class is more important than a game.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

An issue between a people and a class

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.