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The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs? -- Guy Endore
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. -- Judith Martin
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
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. -- Sloan Wilson
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. -- Michael Parenti
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? -- Francesca Annis
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. -- Thorstein Veblen
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. -- David Frost
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. -- George Orwell
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold

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