John Mountfort Dunn Quotes

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

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

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

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.

To abolish class distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

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

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

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

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

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

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

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

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.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Class is more important than a game.

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.

A person born in the middle class, as I was, educated in bourgeois institutions, … is poorly prepared to take a leading part in revolutionary activity.

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 can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.