The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
“ Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe,… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. — Rudolf Hilferding Copy Share Image
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of… — David Liederman Copy Share Image
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead. — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
“Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and… — Mœbius Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
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