For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.
'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.
Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they still want government programs. They want Social Security, they want Medicare. They need it.
I had this health teacher who kept me after class one time, saying, ‘You’re missing a lot of class. ’ I was like, ‘Yeah, but I’m doing this play. ’ He said, ‘Community theatre is not going to take you anywhere. Maybe you should stay in school’
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.
I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.
Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills. . . electric bills, rent. . . That was my reality.
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline and we have to go outside of establishment politics and economics, people who know that we need to reform a broken criminal justice system and we need comprehensive immigration reform.