Learning Quote by Deborah Padgett

“The desires our little family couldn't afford to indulge had never seemed important, only snobbish and silly and somehow misplaced, like Thurston Howell's priorities…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Today’s middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don’t seem very happy.”

— Russ Harris

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

— Eliot Engel

“there’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just…

— Chuck Klosterman

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

— Tom Junod

“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

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

— Friedrich Engels

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

— William Nicholson

“Love is for middle class", Fellows said."The poor can't afford it, and neither can the rich.”

— Jennifer Ashley

“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.”

— Vikram Chandra

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

— Clive Bell

“But progress ought to feed the poor as well as entertain the middle classes, or what good is it?” Remy”

— Viola Carr