#middle class

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#better #class #cut #end #even

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#being #causes #class #feels #luxury

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#class #earners #economic #history #led

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#class #destroyed #directly #failures #germany

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. ↗

— Colin Firth

#adrift #america #appealed #because #been

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#been #buy #class #engines #enrichment

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#big #bossy #class #fact #government

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#class #class family #decadent #excess #family

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#brink #class #collapse #company #disaster

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#childhood #class #completely #every #golden