Middle Class Quotes
621 Middle Class quotes by 431 unique authors
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If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle…
— Ellen Tauscher
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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are…
— Pete du Pont
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I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of…
— Hermann Hesse
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
— Ed Westwick
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I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way…
— Graham Swift
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The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White…
— Ishmael Reed
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In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
— Aravind Adiga
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Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice…
— Aravind Adiga
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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan…
— John McGahern
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If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the…
— Wilbur Ross
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I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that by mandating it…
— Marco Rubio
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If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters:…
— Sheri Holman
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Here’s a current example of the challenge we face: At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and…
— Jaron Lanier
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Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and…
— Andy Stern
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A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and…
— Robert Reich
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America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
— Robert Reich
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We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small…
— Robert Reich
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If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
— Robert Breault
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Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking.
— Shane Perry
Who Wrote These Middle Class Quotes
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