I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu'il a… — Georges Mongredien Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the… — Beryl Markham 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
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
“In spite of her giddy airs (the phrase used by the bourgeois wives of Yonville), Emma still had a joyless look, and,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France,… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
