Robert Reich Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

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

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

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

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

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

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

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside.

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

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.