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about the Middle Class It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Orson Scott Card Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. Ayn Rand The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. Aristotle Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Cyril Connolly I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. Gertrude Stein It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. William Makepeace Thackeray The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. David Mamet Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. Christina Stead | |