Class Quotes

I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

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

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.

We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen!

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

The middle class in America has been devastated.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

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.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.

I'm running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

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

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

Wes Clark put forward a middle-class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle-class families, none without minor children at home. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.