David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

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

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We cannot put into the Constitution, owing to existing prejudices and existing institutions, an entire exclusion of all class distinctions.

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

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.

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

Class still matters in Britain today.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

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.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

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

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

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

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.

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.