Mohsin Hamid Quotes

Class still matters in Britain today.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

There seems to be an idea abroad in this land as well as in others, that a certain class of people are for the purpose of producing servants for another class of people, and that this servant-producing class has no right to give their children an education that is calculated to elevate them above the position of their parents. We are not in sympathy with this idea.

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

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

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

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

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.

In India, cast not class … is what counts most in popular life.

Caste in India is the first and last reality.

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

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

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.