There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx

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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack Obama

I'm a warrior for the middle class.
Barack Obama

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine