Bruce Sterling
Related People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots... SHERROD BROWN MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA DONALD TRUMP 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-c... ELIZABETH WARREN Everyday, I make a choice to be rich, poor or middle class, ROBERT T.KIYOSAKI Poor usually carry money in their pocket, rich businessman normally in their mind and middle class p... ANUJ SOMANY The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concer... TIM MCGRAW WARREN ELLIS Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. BEN LEWIN THOMAS MOORE I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there sh... DANNEL MALLOY HARRY BROWNE Road accidents killing more people than diseases in Ghana. Our drivers are now suicide-bombers. DOUGLAS YEBOAH We have found explosives, vehicles for car bombs, remote control bombs and so on. After the investig... ASSADULLAH KHALID This city is becoming unaffordable for working and middle class people. FERNANDO FERRER It's middle-class housing in a lower-class neighborhood that has no transportation network. People h... MICHAEL HART JR GLORIA STEINEM OS GUINNESS Passing through Berlin we were right in the middle of an air raid. Bombs were exploding all around u... JOHN BUTLER I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really r... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE ALEXANDER HAIG EDMUND WHITE Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of c... ROBERT CRUMB Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching tow... JAMES S. COLEMAN The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class... SLOAN WILSON JUDITH MARTIN There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class JUDITH S. MARIN There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class JUDITH S. MARIN NINA EASTON Terrorism is a weapons system, ... From time immemorial it has been the weapon of the weak against t... ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE With a billion people and a huge middle class being created, how can you ignore it? AHMED FAHOUR THOMAS FRIEDMAN Roughly one million people are entering the middle class each month and government policies to incre... IAN DUFFY India has an increasingly well-funded middle class. Imagine a market of 100 million to 150 million p... GEORGE JOSEPH Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance ind... SANDER LEVIN Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of c... ROBERT CRUMB CHUCK SCHUMER THOMAS BERNHARD NICK HARKAWAY In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the as... JESSICA MITFORD Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people? GILLES DUCEPPE Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where ric... JEFF GREENE It's a different equation for poor people. There's a certain ease of transportation and funds that t... DAN CARTER I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people. KRITI SANON CHUCK SCHUMER WARREN BUFFETT CINDY SHEEHAN TOM LEVEEN In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things, JODY WILLIAMS He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. MICHAEL LEWIS Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist. GARY HOPKINS Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist. GARY HOPKINS I'm painfully middle class. VALERIE HARPER A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that... MARK ANTHONY We have lots of homes for upper income people, but the middle class is being squeezed stagnant wages... GLEN LEWINSKI Our thinking is that a healthy middle class is important to the city. We want to keep these people i... GEOFFREY LEWIS This is the kind of substantial income increase many people need to remain in the middle class or en... JOYCE THOMPSON For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the succes... JOHN J. SWEENEY The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot ... TIMOTHY NOAH MUHAMMAD ALI SANDRA TSING LOH IAN ANDERSON BILL CLINTON CESAR CHAVEZ large number of lower-middle class and middle-class Americans struggling to make it paycheck-to-payc... JOHN CHALLENGER We've known for a long time that the gap was widening. The rich are getting richer, the poor are get... EDWARD GORHAM ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians an... MELANIA TRUMP SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR This is a full-scale assault on middle-class homeowners, and we need even at this early moment to in... STEVE ISRAEL JOHN SALAZAR DONALD TRUMP We've got the first generation of significantly educated people. There's a black middle class like n... HARRY ALFORD DOUGLAS COUPLAND DENIS HEALEY Meetings are a middle class kind of thing, and we want to value the voice of people who can't come t... GREGORY DAVIS No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys. BURT WARD The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a l... BRUCE BRALEY None of us are rich. It's not like we're some upper class people coming in and helping the poor. We'... FAITH VOID We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-clas... CRISS ANGEL ORSON WELLES It was the first study conducted with middle-class African-American men. AARON THOMPSON GEORGE SAUNDERS The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economi... BRUCE BRALEY Some say we're blue-collar, middle-class America and do we want to be high-end? Others say we are hi... BRAD DEAN The biggest (challenge) was convincing people there's a market here. This is not a poor community. I... LARRY KILDUFF Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people ca... PATRICK MURPHY SHAH RUKH KHAN HENRY LOUIS GATES Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than t... USHER ORHAN PAMUK Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Ar... BILL HALTER Either we are going to continue to have a vital, vibrant middle class in America, or we're going to ... CAROL FLORMAN People with negative energies are more dangerous than human bombs. PRAVIN PRAJAPATI The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. Bu... DENISE MINA HUNTER S. THOMPSON A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hol... RAHM EMANUEL THOMM QUACKENBUSH Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people a... PAUL BEATTY
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The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the r... 
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class ... 
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world inste... 
I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is mi... 
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki... 
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people... 
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations... 
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively f... 
What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizin... 
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselv... 
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. 
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while... 
I think it's going to be one of the biggest middle-class jobs -- collaborators. Collaborators are pe... 
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. 
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. 
I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchise... 
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor p... 
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even ... 
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing in... 
I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her. 
Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in place... 
The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no lon... 
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-cla... 
Opportunity for all means making taxes fair. I'm not out to soak the rich. But I do believe the rich... 
Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually... 
Unions go hand-in-hand with a strong middle class. 
That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the co... 
would lead to a 40 percent cut in current benefits for middle-class beneficiaries, add five trillion... 
You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class ... 
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all ... 
La Pasionaria of middle-class privilege. 
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. 
Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we a... 
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life. 
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending dis... 
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catchin... 
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... 
The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of stre... 
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I... 
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So t... 
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... 
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. 
Man is a substance clad in shadows. 
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else... 
There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it... 
The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever s... 
I like people who are achievers. 
It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make... 
I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pul... 
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There is something about the melody of 'Thunder Road' that just suggests 'new day.' ... 
There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.