Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too. — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“She is a waitress at his lordships club. My God! The Proletariat! The lower middle classes, sir. Well, yes, by stretching it… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“But progress ought to feed the poor as well as entertain the middle classes, or what good is it?” Remy” — Viola Carr Copy Share Image
“the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes. — Anohni Copy Share Image
“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. Thesequalities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national… — Edward Morgan Forster Copy Share Image
“We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without… — E.M. Forster 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
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of… — Owen H Lewis Copy Share Image
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough,… — Anohni Copy Share Image
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I think for much of the middle classes, nothing could be more fantastic than to have a contact with fame. But once… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree.… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you’re comfortably middle-class, what’s the worst a government policy could do?… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis, — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
