It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
I'm painfully middle class.
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.