Class Quote by Emily Matchar

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

— Friedrich Engels

“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were…

— Zadie Smith

“She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle class values…

— Anonymous

“Until recently, I never realized to what degree the middle class is a moral, rather than an economic, entity, based less on status than…

— Andrew Todhunter

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

— Ayn Rand

“You can imagine how distraught I feel when I hear about the glorified heroism-free “middle class values,” which, thanks to globalization and the Internet,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new…

— Alissa Quart

I grew up upper middle class.

— Lil Dicky

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand…

— Mao Zedong

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

I was as middle class as it comes.

— Patrick Murphy

Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of…

— Maurice Strong