Working Class Quotes - Page 5

• Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

  Dwight Garner

  Book, Class, Wings

  4 Copy quote

• I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

  David Bowie

  School, Class, Ideas

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.31, Melville House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Class, Ideas

  395 Copy quote

• The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Essence, Class, Lenin And Stalin

  "USSR Information Bulletin", (p. 322), 1942.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.

  Kim Jong Il

  Country, Heart, Class

  "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Math, Views, Engineering

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Class, England, Huge

  7 Copy quote

• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Class

  "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a working class lad.

  Rob James-Collier

  Class, Lad

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

  Tom Jones

  Father, Coal Miners, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I make films about working class people.

  Taylor Hackford

  Class, People, Film

  "Director Taylor Hackford Interview LOVE RANCH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 30, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

  Elton John

  Class, Glasses, Alcohol

  10 Copy quote

• I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teaching, College, Class

  4 Copy quote

• I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

  Billy Gardell

  Class, Chicago, Pittsburgh

  4 Copy quote

• I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

  Michelle Forbes

  Mom, Blood, Class

  4 Copy quote

• I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

  Michelle Dockery

  Past, Class, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  Olivier Martinez

  Class, Paris, Born

  "Olivier Martinez: Liberté, Egalité, Sensualité - Enter a New International Heartthrob". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

  Bill Pascrell

  Law, Class, Long

  9 Copy quote

• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fashion, Book, Years

  7 Copy quote

• I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.

  Vinnie Jones

  Boys, Mps, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Class, People, Champion

  6 Copy quote

• On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

  Ernest Mandel

  Class, Organization, Conscious

  6 Copy quote

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

  Ernest Mandel

  Real, Class, Political

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

  Denise Mina

  Art, Brother, Dad

  9 Copy quote