Charles Murray Quotes

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

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

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

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.

Americans overall may live better than medieval aristocrats could dream of, but that means nothing when oligarchs live in the neighborhood next door, flaunting their luxurious homes and top-quality private schools.

Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

I do not like the rich.

I was as middle class as it comes.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

I spent time in refugee camps in Southeast Asia, and in the projects of Chicago. I've been to State dinners with Presidents. I met the Queen of England on a beach in Anguilla. No one is any more valuable or important than you are. No one is more important than your family and your friends.

We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.