Middle class Quotes · Page 9

“Unions gave us the forty-hour workweek, the weekend, and the middle class.”

— Al Franken

I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

— Gina Schock

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the…

— Stephen Moore

“The era of bell curve distributions that supported a bulging social middle class is over and we are headed for the power-law…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status.…

— Charles R. Morris

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's…

— Marc Andreessen

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a…

— Anonymous

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

— Irvine Welsh

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

— Whittaker Chambers

The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around…

— Joe Lonsdale

A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition,…

— Raymond Williams

“On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She…

— Philip K. Dick

“Nothing in the comfortable lives of the urban middle class can approach the wild excitement and sheer joy experienced by a forager…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“He who would preserve the supremacy of natural feelings in social life knows not what he asks. Ever at war with himself,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are…

— Henry Giroux

The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the…

— Arundhati Roy

For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle…

— Nick Broomfield

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure,…

— Chael Sonnen

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

“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

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

— Martha Stewart

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

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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

— Ban Ki-moon

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Vera Lynn

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

— Kevin Kwan

“So, as middle-class families have been tumbling downhill, working-class families have been tumbling into poverty. And”

— Amy Goldstein

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

— Ritesh Agarwal

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi