{"quotes":[{"text":"Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.","author":"Vivek Shanbhag","tags":["asian","children","family","middle-class","parents","repression","silence"],"id":30991,"author_id":"Vivek+Shanbhag"},{"text":"As the wicked flee when none pursueth, so does the middle-class wrestle when none contendeth. They cried out for freedom, it came down on them in a flood. Nothing remains but a few floating timbers of psychotherapy.","author":"Saul Bellow","tags":["america","freedom","middle-class"],"id":31847,"author_id":"Saul+Bellow"},{"text":"The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.","author":"Charles Murray","tags":["competition","culture","meritocracy","middle-class","stratification"],"id":45419,"author_id":"Charles+Murray"},{"text":"It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal to old prejudices without threatening the existing economic system. This appealed, above all, to white-collar workers and the small entrepreneurs, as some of the statistics presented in this book will demonstrate. It was their kind of revolution: the ideology would give them a new status, free them from isolation in the industrial society, and give them a purpose in life. But it would not threaten any of their vested interests; indeed it would reinforce their bourgeois predilections toward family...And restore the 'good old values' which had been so sadly dismantled by modernity.","author":"George L. Mosse","tags":["bourgeois","germany","hitler","industrialism","middle-class","modernity","nazism","nostalgia","pre-world-war-ii","preconceptions","prejudice","values","white-collar"],"id":56397,"author_id":"George+L.+Mosse"},{"text":"A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.","author":"Robert B. Reich","tags":["class","government","middle-class","poor","privilege","upper-class","wealth"],"id":92922,"author_id":"Robert+B.+Reich"},{"text":"Hunger justifies the middle classes.","author":"Julien Torma","tags":["capitalism","communism","euphorisms","hunger","middle-class"],"id":101200,"author_id":"Julien+Torma"},{"text":"Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.","author":"Paul Bamikole","tags":["education","illiteracy","learn","literacy","middle-class","person"],"id":155336,"author_id":"Paul+Bamikole"},{"text":"This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated.","author":"Barbara Ehrenreich","tags":["job-coaching","job-searching","joblessness","jobs","middle-class"],"id":156811,"author_id":"Barbara+Ehrenreich"},{"text":"... She exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit and loss, and nourished ideals of honour and love, she placed in a class by themselves, superior to the rest of humanity.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["humanity","middle-class","society","woman"],"id":171076,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.","author":"Vivek Shanbhag","tags":["choice","discontent","india","middle-class","poverty"],"id":220858,"author_id":"Vivek+Shanbhag"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}