20th century Quote by Sinclair Lewis Download Open image “The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.” — Sinclair Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Century Class Middle Middle class Prisoner
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution” — Owen H Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The middle classes did not go to public hospitals; those places were reserved for workers, child-mothers, and those unfortunates who had wasted their inheritance,… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class… — Nani Copy Share Image
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had expected that traditionally Republican Vermont would give him too drearily easy a task in preaching Trowbridge. What he found was a dismaying… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“She continued it to Hugh, 'Darling, do you know what mother and you are going to find beyond the blue horizon rim?' 'What?' flatly.… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps we want a more conscientious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of always deferring hope to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions,” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
