George Orwell Quotes

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.

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.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

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.

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'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

It is surprising how few references in our politics there are to the underclass as compared by the middle class.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

I was as middle class as it comes.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

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

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.