"The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to get rid of class-distinctions but nearly everything I think and do is a result of class-distinctions. All my notions notions of good and evil of pleasant and unpleasant of funny and serious of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle-class notions; my taste in books and food and clothes my sense of honour my table manners my turns of speech my accent even the characteristic movements of my body are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche about half-way up the social hierarchy."