Middle Classes Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.… — Mahatma Gandhi
• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have been acquired in… — Samuel Roth
• Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes. — Thurman Arnold
• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster… — Denis de Rougemont
• Hunger justifies the middle classes. — Julien Torma
• I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis, — Rana Dasgupta
• All great men come out of the middle classes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn
• Comfort came in with the middle classes. — Clive Bell
• In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation… — John Millington Synge
• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing -… — Gary Kemp
• 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 black underclass, tension… — Henry Louis Gates
• Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below… — Henry Louis Gates
• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. — E. M. Forster
• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. — Simon Hoggart
• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the… — Hermann Hesse
• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an… — Jeanette Winterson

Who Wrote These Middle Classes Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Middle Classes Quotes as follows:

• 2 Middle Classes Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Samuel Roth
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Thurman Arnold
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Denis de Rougemont
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Julien Torma
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Rana Dasgupta
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Howard Zinn
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Clive Bell
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by John Millington Synge
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Gary Kemp
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by E. M. Forster
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Simon Hoggart
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Hermann Hesse
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Jeanette Winterson
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Dario Fo
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Noreena Hertz
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Arthur Hertzberg
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Edward Morgan Forster
• 1 Middle Classes Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein