Rachael Stirling Quotes

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

The great families have their privileges.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

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

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.

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

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

The tradesmen are the only gentry in England.

Ultimately the views of the ruling class become embodied in the law.

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

… if one person owns the preponderance of land in a given territory, the result is monarchy; if a few own it, we have aristocracy; if the whole people be landlords, it is a commonwealth.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.