Anthony Crosland Quotes

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

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?

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

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

Class still matters in Britain today.

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

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

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.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

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

Class is more important than a game.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

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

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

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.

We know that the British public are obsessed with class.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.