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"The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate."

Aristotle on middle class    Share


"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise."

Dante Alighieri on middle class
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"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."

Hesse, Hermann on middle class    Share

"The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers."

James, William on middle class    Share

"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."

Orwell, George on middle class    Share

"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."

Shaw, George Bernard on middle class    Share

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"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."

Stein, Gertrude on middle class    Share

"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."

Thackeray, William M. on middle class    Share

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