58 Quotes About Middle-class

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

... his experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...

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.

It’s time someone said it, average living (read middle-class) is not good enough

... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit and loss, and nourished ideals of honour and love, she placed in a class by themselves, superior to the rest of humanity.

In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraordinary feats. Just as the United States dominates world affairs with less than five per cent of the global population, Australia too can make a lasting impression with its own limited demographics. The rise of the global middle class is Australia’s pathway to exceptionalism.

The rise of the global middle class will be the most significant economic event to occur on our planet this century, yet the White Paper chose to ignore 34 per cent of those taking part in it – those in traditional western markets.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.