Charles Murray Quotes

Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.

It's strange because we think of the upper middle class, for example, as being secular, that they've fallen away from religion. Well, it turns out that the upper middle class goes to church more often and feels a much stronger affiliation with their religion than the white working class.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

My dad was working class.

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

I'm a working class lad.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

I never got a job from a poor person.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.