Tom Noddy Quotes

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

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

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

All power is fast getting into the hands of the very lowest people.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

I was at this fancy school, and I felt out of place, so I rebelled.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.