Middle Class Values Quotes

“Many academic intellectuals hold middle-class values in contempt”
― Richard J. Herrnstein, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

“Norah herself was labelled for all to see. She was labelled 'Middle class, no money.' Hardly enough to keep herself in clean linen. And yet, scrupulously, fiercly clean, but with all the daintiness and prettiness perforce cut out. Everything about her betrayed the woman who has been brought up to certain tastes, then left without the money to gratify them; trained to certain opinions which forbid her even the relief of rebellion against her lot; yet holding desperately to both her tastes and opinions.”
― Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie