Mira Nair Quotes

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

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'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

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.

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

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.

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 believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

Class still matters in Britain today.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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

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.

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

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

Everyone has class, one class or another.

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.

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

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.