Middle class Quotes · Page 15

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

— Ludwig von Mises

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

— Matt Damon

I grew up poor. To me, interior decorating is my big-screen TV, my couch and my Simpsons poster.

— John Pinette

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of…

— Charles Dickens

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

— Katsuya Okada

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.

— Glenn Reynolds

I'm the middle-class kid; it doesn't sound exciting, but a lot of my audience is middle-class kids.

— Billy Squier

My parents, they come from different backgrounds. They don't even value money.

— Jabari Parker

Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty…

— Stephanie Coontz

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't…

— John Hodgman

“Coming from a struggling middle class family, I have come here to the stage where the esteemed people all over the world…

— Avijeet Das

Fame has not changed me as a person, but life on the whole has changed a lot. I belong to a middle…

— Bhuvan Bam

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against…

— Patricia Schroeder

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to…

— Fran Lebowitz

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able…

— Cleve Jones

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused,…

— Colin Firth

“This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism"…

— Chögyam Trungpa

Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia,…

— Gary Snyder

The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good…

— Russ Feingold

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around…

— Rick Perlstein

It's a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a 'redistribution of income'…

— Joe Biden

In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it…

— Clara Zetkin

Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only…

— T. Harv Eker

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of…

— Tennessee Williams

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

— Tom Hardy

Our family didn't have a lot of money, so my brother, parents and I spent our holidays at Southend-on-Sea.

— Vera Lynn

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

— Constance Baker Motley

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

— Martha Stewart

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

— Ban Ki-moon

“As a middle class Indian you have always been taught to buy peace. Like a commodity.”

— Andy Paula

“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

— Neal Stephenson

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

— Sinclair Lewis

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

— Ruben Hinojosa

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

— Alex Borstein

We didn't have much money and my mom scrounged up $15 and bought us a surf board at a yard sale.

— Garrett McNamara

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

— Daveed Diggs

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

— Nick Kroll

I belong to a middle class family from Bhopal. My father was fearless.

— Jaya Bachchan