Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Hispanics don't want more programs to make them comfortable in their poverty. What Hispanics really want is more opportunity: the freedom to… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
“Middle-class parents are more verbal generally, their vocabulary is richer and more expressive, and they are more supportive and less controlling in… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
In a time where the middle class is squeezed by stagnant incomes and rising health care costs, Ben Carson looks like he… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent -… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You know, it can get to a place where when a person hears about hockey, it's not just like, 'Oh, that's the… — Auston Matthews Copy Share Image
“If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.” — David Brin Copy Share Image
I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security. — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted. — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
You suck, your momma sucks and your sister woulda sucked but, I didn't have 5 bucks! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them. — Frank James Copy Share Image
When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive… — Murray Walker Copy Share Image
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad. — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image