Middle class Quote by Chuck Klosterman

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if…

— Friedrich Engels

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

— Joel Stein

“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive…

— Ellen Cushing

“I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.”

— Leila Aboulela

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't…

— Joe Biden

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

— Michael Bloomberg

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“the hard-working, honest rich are the primary providers of jobs that allow us to have a middle class in this country.”

— Ben Carson

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household…

— Alissa Quart

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

— H. Rap Brown

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

— Marc Andreessen