B. C. Forbes Quotes

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

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

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

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

I am hard-core middle class.

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

Class is real. It can't be faked.