Middle Class Quotes - Page 27

• The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade Runner. Welcome to your science fiction. Your 21st century. I think that's where it goes. The rich get richer and everyone else... the middle class kind of starts dropping lower and lower.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.

  Marc Maron

  Kids, Class, Way

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Support, Fantasy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and non-religious segments of society. The euthanasia idea came from neither the radical right-wing nor the conservative corner. It was and remains part of the modern age and progressive thought.

  Gotz Aly

  Religious, Class, Wings

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• The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Hands, Class, Pressure

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• Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a middle class - because middle class creates a certain happiness. You know what I mean?

  John Hodgman

  Mean, Class, People

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Thinking, Class, America

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

  Adrienne Rich

  Country, Believe, Government

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Class, People

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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• Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Opportunity, Class

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

  John Lithgow

  Sleep, Class, People

  "John Lithgow on Process, His Past and Playing an Artist in Love Is Strange". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. July 17, 2014.

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• In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior.

  Evo Morales

  Self, Class, Roots

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• I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at their troubles. They can enjoy sitcoms. For those who aren't quite so lucky, well, the irony might be lost on them.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Class, Luxury

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Football, Boys, Talking

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. 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.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Class

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Black

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Rap, Men

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Kings, Responsibility

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The government is committed towards helping the poor and neo- middle class with the success mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. It is in line with government's vision to create a skilled and digital India.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Government, Digital India

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• We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

  David Axelrod

  Letting Go, Failure, Moving

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Years, Class

  "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

  Scott Walker

  Thinking, Government, Class

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• I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.

  Henry Hyde

  Class, Abortion, Bills

  "40 Years After Roe v. Wade, We Still Fall Short of Reproductive Justice" by Terry O'Neill, www.usnews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Class, Waiting

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