Middle-class Quotes

• I'm painfully middle class.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Class
  • Middle
  • Middle-class

• The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

  

  Aristotle
  • Citizens
  • Formed
  • Political Community

• My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Middle-class
  • Upbringing

• When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Death
  • Night
  • Middle-class

• I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Want
  • Taxes
  • Lower

• People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

  

  Brian Friel
  • People
  • Repression
  • Suggestion

• No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Administered
  • Holds Sway

• Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Country
  • Power
  • Wonder

• I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Support
  • Tax
  • Middle-class

• Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

  

  James Cook
  • Welfare
  • Middle-class
  • Corrupts

• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Manner
  • Formal
  • Preferable

• There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted against each other and it runs so contrary to the E pluribus unum American middle class experience.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Women
  • Experience
  • American

• I don't care about the poor, I don't care about the middle class and I don't care about the rich. I care about good people who live virtuous lives, who engage in the world - who are rational, who take responsibility for their own lives. I care about virtue, good people. I know scoundrels in the upper, middle and lower class and I don't care about them. I want the irrational to suffer from their irrationality, I want the lazy to suffer from their laziness and the ones without virtue to suffer from that. Marx came up with the idea of dividing people into classes and now everyone buys into it, left, center and right. I want hardworking people to benefit from their virtues.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • People
  • Rich
  • Poor

• The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Chinese
  • Distribution
  • Political Game

• My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Way
  • Middle-class
  • My Parents

• I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Family
  • Degree
  • Public-schoolboy

• When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Grew Up

• For too long, people in Washington and Congress point fingers at each other, even as millions of middle-class Americans remain unemployed and our economy continues to sputter. They must realize that we are all in this together, and I respectfully submit that the best way to remind Congress of this is to tie their pay to their collective results.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Economy
  • Results
  • Congress

• I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • English
  • Successful

• It is the Democratic Party historically that created the middle class.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Party
  • Middle-class
  • Democratic Party

• We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Taxpayers
  • Tax Rate
  • Choise

• We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Balance
  • Drugs
  • Social Security

• If they are ignored, Alice Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'

  

  Ben Ehrenreich
  • Rights
  • Dangers
  • Security Forces

• While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization. For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.

  

  Branko Milanovic
  • Success
  • Problem
  • Globalization

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