58 Quotes About Middle-class

Funny, isn’t it? We middle-class people secretly want that the poor should remain poor, as poverty is a necessary condition for an easy supply of servants. Yet out in the open, we pretend that the penury of the masses concerns us deeply. We hide who we are and wear masks. All of us.

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.

When you are really rich, you do not mind coming across as poor or broke.

To live ordinary life prudence is enough; to live extraordinary life passion is must.

People who are good at complaining about not having a lot of money are generally bad at not wasting money.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

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.

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

Imagine living in a world where we judge each others intellect based on social statuses and class. Raw intelligence is not reserved for "upper classes" or those with a particular accent.