Mike Nesbitt Quotes

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

There's not enough opportunity, and I feel like you can't control where you're born or where you're brought up.

There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

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.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

Better educated than wealthy

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.

If I'd been from a different background, I could have gone to a grammar school, I suppose. I might have been a different person.

Like everything, if you're born in the center of something it's super easy, but it's hard to do anything different with your life if you come from somewhere that isn't London.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

The idea that there is a meritocracy where anyone from any background really might have the social and economic mobility to rise to the top in Silicon Valley, those are antithetical to a lot of the principles that the Trump administration apparently stands for.

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

A girl born in Drumchapel in Glasgow has just as much right to good health and the opportunities provided by a good education as a Surrey stockbroker's son.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

Martha's Vineyard is a very strange place, racially speaking. Or maybe it's the way things could be if everyone had a bit more money and job security and status and could meet on equal enough footing.

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.