I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“My confusion about the separation between the servant class and the upper middle class revealed a quintessentially American point of view. Status… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on,… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle… — Larry Bucshon Copy Share Image
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
“What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates… — Bobby Schilling Copy Share Image
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn’t… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
“A quantified family would be upper middle class. Likely working in big tech,” said Theodore. “Their employers would have required it.” Piece… — Matthew De Abaitua Copy Share Image
It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Graham states, “Because average country income levels do not matter to happiness, but relative distances from the average do, the poor Honduran… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Now, that's not my analysis. That's the analysis of economists who have looked at this. And, and that kind of top, top-down… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No,” I start, hesitantly. “Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will… — Terry Savage Copy Share Image
Do we want more of the same regulatory mission creep that has helped to harm America's poor and middle class? Do we… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
“We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
“No one disputes that college has gotten a lot more expensive. A recent Money magazine report notes, “After adjusting for financial aid,… — Glenn Harlan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
What the Democrats have done is tell the poor and the middle class that the Democrats are looking out for 'em. Democrats… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
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