Middle class Quotes · Page 7

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

— Virginia Postrel

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big…

— Virat Kohli

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

— James Cook

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

— Sam Walton

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

— Ronald Reagan

“Indian middle class is economic entity, not a political entity.”

— Anonymous

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

— Al Franken

It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to…

— Leo Varadkar

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle…

— George Bernard Shaw

“It was, Uncle Jimmy told me, 'a typical middle-class life'. Kind of boring, by some standards, but happy in a way you…

— J.D. Vance

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as…

— Richard Ojeda

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the…

— Bernie Sanders

My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs…

— Hillary Clinton

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who…

— Ro Khanna

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in…

— Mira Nair

“How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How…

— Howard Zinn

“The Great War (1914-1918) – no one knew then it would be the first of two – transformed the world in ways…

— Paul Brody

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent…

— Barack Obama

I figured, I am a product of the opportunity the country provided, and I understand the challenges of the middle class and…

— Ricardo Sanchez

“The sub-sector needed a person, preferably an officer, civilian or military, to handle logistics. We had information that a certain Lieutenant Enamul…

— A. Qayyum Khan

The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,…

— Noam Chomsky

The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the…

— Ron Paul

Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations…

— Saul Alinsky

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

— Pedro Martinez

My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

— Kevin Parker

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

— Tom Hardy

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

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

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

— John Pinette

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

— Matt Damon

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

— Frank Grillo

By simplifying and streamlining the tax filing process it lifts a huge burden off of the middle class.

— Jim Justice

I came from a very lower-working-class family in Torre del Greco.

— Gino D'Acampo

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

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