“ The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. Ellen Cushing
“ Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it. Paul Bamikole
“ This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like havin… Barbara Ehrenreich
“ The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. Charles Murray
“ The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it. Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful. Robert B. Reich
“ It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's edit… Jack Zipes
“ When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my molderi… Hermann Hesse
