Aim Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the…

— Noam Chomsky

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going…

— Nigel Cole

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class…

— Raymond Williams

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the…

— Ed Miliband

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

— Jilly Cooper

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

— Francesca Annis

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the…

— Tracey Ullman

I think there's a tendency in England, when you look at the past, to either have upper middle class period drama with its own…

— Steven Knight

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

— Karl Marx

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

— Marc Andreessen

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian…

— Christopher Lasch

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the…

— Elizabeth Warren