Jordan Peterson Quotes

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

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

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.

I come from a very working-class background.

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

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

The common people are more disposed to trust one of their own class [in political office] than those who may efect to be superior.

Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?

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 grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I come from a very working-class background.

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

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 one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

While we recognize … the class origins of political parties we do not reduce every difference between parties to a class difference.

I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.