Louis Auchincloss Quotes

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

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

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Class still matters in Britain today.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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