Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

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.

Like it or not, most things in this country are run by white males.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a) he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't ; b) he has a high IQ, but they don't.

The interests of the white working class have often been used by white political elites to stave off challenges to inequality and discrimination by black folk and other minority groups.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

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

Class still matters in Britain today.

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.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

Language does not make one an elite.

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

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

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.