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“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”

Humans May Poor Class Rich Middle Media Fashion Middle Class Endeavor Adopted Social Change Childbirth Filters

Author:Jessica Mitford

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

Class Middle Boring Dull Middle Class Vulgar Never Fear

Author:Diana Vreeland

“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.”

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Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.”

People Kind Poor Money Class Middle Middle Class Embarrassed Poor People Contemptuous

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether its good for the middle class or not.”

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Author:Dan Maffei

“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.”

“The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.”

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Author:Tim Montgomerie

“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.”

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Author:Bernard Goldberg

“It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.”

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Author:John Waters

“If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.”

“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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.”

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Author:Dale Spender

“I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work”

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Author:James Fallows

“I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with I Hope It Rains it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.”

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Author:Jana Kramer

“It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.”

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

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.”

People Men Causes Moral Class Break Middle Becoming Desperate Middle Class

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

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Author:Benjamin Lewin

“We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.”

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Author:George Noory

“Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.”

Source: On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics

“A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.”

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Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.”

Class Middle Development India Aspiration Middle Class Initiative Urban Governance Urban Development

Author:Narendra Modi

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

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.”

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Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction

“Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.”

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Author:Larry Gagosian

“There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?”

“The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.”

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Author:Brian Grazer

“In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.”

“I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.”

World Bigs Differences Poor Class Rich Middle Middle Class Polarization

Author:Pope Francis

“I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.”

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Author:Blake Bailey

“We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.”

Might Together Strong Class Growing Economic Middle Ideals Standing Muscles Middle Class Inclusion Empowered Bedrock Stand Strong Growing Together

Author:Cory Booker

“I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.”

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Author:Colum McCann

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Perez

“The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.”

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Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.”

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Author:William Julius Wilson

“Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.”

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Author:William Julius Wilson

“We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.”

Want Kind Enjoy Class Growing Middle Broken Standards West Conservative Lifestyle Socialism Selling Middle Class Standards Of Living Shackles

Author:Vijay Mallya

“Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.”

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Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”

“The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.”

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Author:Virginia Postrel

“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.”

“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.”

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Author:Celinda Lake

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