Working class Quotes · Page 6

There's a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong.

— Suranne Jones

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

— Martin Scorsese

Destroying an entire energy industry, that hurts the working class.

— Dan Crenshaw

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Danny Dyer

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

— R. A. Salvatore

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“You’re working-class heroes, even though you don’t work.”

— Adam Carolla

I grew up in a working-class area, and I stood out - for my voice, my appearance, I did dance and things…

— Ncuti Gatwa

I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.

— Lynn Coady

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for…

— Van Jones

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with…

— Karin Tidbeck

Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.

— Charles Murray

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump…

— David Lammy

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.

— Susan Straight

Some of my friends laugh at me and tell me I'm far too working-class about my childcare, but I refuse to have…

— Tess Daly

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my…

— Cory Booker

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part…

— Steve Antin

Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of…

— Dwight Garner

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called…

— Ernest Mandel

I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers…

— Tony Benn

I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class…

— Dorothy Allison

I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the…

— Geoff Dyer

“There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that…

— J.D. Vance

I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers…

— Debra Monroe

We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the…

— Buenaventura Durruti

“Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That…

— Jeanette Winterson

What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a…

— James Vance

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy…

— Karl Marx

I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from…

— Deborah Smith

“The first problem with the word “diversity” is the word itself. Who is diverse in relation to whom? The way diversity is…

— Louis Yako

I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

— Daniel Espinosa

I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.

— Joe Gilgun

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

— Vivienne Westwood

“Solidarity: the ultimate working-class superpower”

— J. Albert Mann

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.

— Boots Riley

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

— Bill O'Reilly

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

— Israel Horovitz

I grew up in a working class family in South East London with no money.

— Keeley Hazell