Lea Thompson Quotes

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.

Any organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

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

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

It has often been said, that there is but one rank of men in America… we have no artificial distinctions of men into noblemen and commoners among us, but it ought to be remarked, that superior degrees of industry and capacity, and above all, commerce, have introduced inequality of property among us, and these have introduced natural distinctions of rank in Pennsylvania, as certain and general as the artificial distinctions of men in Europe. This will ever be the case while commerce exists in this country.