Middle Class Quotes

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

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.

I believe the middle class game is dead.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

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

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.