64 Best Middle Class Quotes And Sayings
Middle Class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class.
1. The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
Chelsea Clinton
2. I’m a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.
Cristina Kirchner
3. It's time for folks to stop rooting for its failure, because hard working middle-class families are rooting for its success.
Barack Obama
4. Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin Spock
5. Rich people paying rich people to tell middle class people to blame poor people
Anonymous
6. With a billion people and a huge middle class being created, how can you ignore it?
Ahmed Fahour
7. You gotta be rich to be insane. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
Cecelia Ahern
8. At a time when the middle class is disappearing and millions of working Americans are still living in poverty, it is absolutely imperative that we raise the minimum wage. The truth is that the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. While Vermont and other states have raised the minimum wage higher than the national level, it is important that Congress pass a national minimum wage of at least $10.10 an hour. I am very disappointed, but not surprised, that only one Republican agreed to even consider the legislation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders
9. I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation’s part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Rave
10. If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.
Warren Buffett
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11. Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term – not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.
Tom Vilsack
12. The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
J. K. Rowling
13. 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.
Bernie Sanders
14. 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.
Barack Obama
15. Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things
Anonymous
16. Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than they did 15 years ago, … That’s about it.
Anonymous
17. White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
Holly Near
18. I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama
19. 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.
Warren Buffett
20. I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.
James Ellroy
21. Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.
Barbara Ehrenreich
22. They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown
23. Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Bernie Sanders
24. In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Aravind Adiga
25. I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
Hillary Clinton
26. There is no such thing as a black middle class.
Harp Brown
27. A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
Eliot Engel
28. We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George Orwell
29. It’s middle-class housing in a lower-class neighborhood that has no transportation network. People have not been willing to pay the prices asked.
Michael Hart
30. Those families, you know, are our upper crust—not upper ten thousand.
James Fenimore Cooper
31. What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.
Charlie Sheen
32. Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.
Ruben Hinojosa
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33. When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.
Christine Lagarde
34. 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?
Bernie Sanders
35. The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.
Robert Kiyosaki
36. Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
Mitt Romney
37. Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem
38. 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
39. I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
Tom Hardy
40. Middle class, working class, I don't fucking care.
Crass
41. The middle-class society I grew up in didn't evolve gradually or automatically. It was created, in a remarkably short period of time, by FDR and the New Deal.
Paul Krugman
42. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
43. I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
Anupam Kher
44. All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
Theodore C. Sorensen
46. The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis
47. My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
Nita Ambani
48. This November, you can remind the world how a strong economy is built – not from the top down, but from a growing, thriving middle class.
Barack Obama
49. Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.
Giancarlo Esposito
50. My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl
51. We can adjust Anywhere Anyhow, Anytime
Anonymous
52. We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
Chuck Schumer
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53. The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.
Robert Kiyosaki
54. Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.
Robert Kiyosaki
55. I'm painfully middle class.
Valerie Harper
56. Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.
Ben Lewin
57. You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those jobs.
George Carlin
58. It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card
59. If you're rich you get a bailout. If you're poor you get a handout. And if you're middle class you get left out
Anonymous
60. Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. Howard Zinn
61. Being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.
Margaret Halsey
62. You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
Michael Bloomberg
63. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles
64. Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand