Bourgeois Quote by Johannes Grenzfurthner Download Open image “Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.” — Johannes Grenzfurthner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bourgeois Cybersecurity Fantasy Imagination Privacy
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“is in the realm of privacy where creativity, dissent, and challenges to orthodoxy germinate. A society in which everyone knows they can be watched… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share
“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share
“the desire for privacy is shared by us all as an essential, not ancillary, part of what it means to be human. We all… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it. — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
“The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo'… — Johannes Grenzfurthner Copy Share Image
The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those… — Johannes Grenzfurthner Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know… — Karl Radek 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 and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt 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 leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a… — Patrice Pavis 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 of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image