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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
— Bruce Braley
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
— Orson Scott Card
The Eugenic Society ... is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
— Bertrand Russell
I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
— Poe Ballantine
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
— Elizabeth Warren
The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.
— Thomas Piketty
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
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.
— Vladimir Lenin
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
— Anne Enright
I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
— Bernard Goldberg
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
— James Altucher
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
— Martin O'Malley
Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.
— Guo Guangchang
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
— Jon Meacham
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
— Timothy Ferriss
The American middle-class appetite for illegal drugs provided the capital to build some of the most sophisticated and effective companies on earth.
— Jonathan Franzen
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
— Timothy Noah
I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.
— Asher Judah
Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
— Hannah Arendt
Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.
— Thurman Arnold
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
— Christina Stead
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
— George Orwell
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
— Suze Orman
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
— Willie Stargell
Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking.
— Shane Perry
Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
— Neal Stephenson
They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were.
— E. M. Forster
The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you. — Robert Kiyosaki
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
— Rashid Johnson
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
— Jackie Speier
I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
— Hillary Clinton
You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
— Cecelia Ahern
The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.
— Keith Ellison
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
— Bill Vaughan
The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
— Ted Strickland
Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.
— George W. Bush
Today's middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don't seem very happy.
— Russ Harris
Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?
— Katherine Mansfield
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.
— Nick Hanauer
Financially, with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future: to be rich, poor, or middle class.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.
— Allison Anders
Hunger justifies the middle classes.
— Julien Torma
The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.
— Charles Murray
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
— Eric Idle
Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.
— Narendra Modi
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,
— Rana Dasgupta
A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society.
— Henry Johnson Jr
Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.
— Dov Davidoff
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.
— Robert Wuthnow
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
— Charles Dickens
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.
— Isabella Bird
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
— Keith Ellison
There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.
— Bruce Braley
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
— Stephen Carter
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
— William Nicholson
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
— Faye Wattleton
I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
— Henry Rollins
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
— Angela Ahrendts
Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.
— John F. Kerry
I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.
— Dannel Malloy
What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
— Dale Spender
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
— Douglas Coupland
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
— Barack Obama
Vishram is a building like the people living in it, middle class to its core. Improvement or failure, it is incapable of either extremity.
— Aravind Adiga
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
— Constance Baker Motley
If this was a middle-class family in Alfheim, I didn't want to split a lunch tab with the one-percenters.
— Rick Riordan
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
— Chetan Bhagat
