Philosophy Quote by Owen H Lewis

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Marc Andreessen

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to…

— George Orwell

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

— Jon Meacham

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

— Orson Welles

“A “class analysis” does not necessarily begin and end with Marx’s nineteenth-century version, a version I regard as grossly inaccurate. The class struggle, moreover,…

— Murray Bookchin

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

— Katsuya Okada

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

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two…

— William Graham Sumner

“Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.”

— Toba Beta

The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their…

— Marco Rubio

“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to spend billions…

— Howard Zinn