Time Quote by Zadie Smith

“the term “middle class” concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: “It was . . . a middle-class…

— Howard Zinn

'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

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

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

— Friedrich Engels

'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

“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

“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

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

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

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

— Marc Andreessen

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

— Ayn Rand