Cornelia Parker Quotes

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

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

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

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

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

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

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

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

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

For our part we regard all human life as equally sacred, whether it be the life of an Empress or the life of a charwoman, and we have no desire to emulate our contemporaries in their attempt to magnify the horror of a crime because the victim belonged to the former rank of life rather than the latter.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

We need leisure ... because with us every man is of the ruling class.