Quotes About Bourgeoisie
Integration is the biggest con job ever pulled on any group of people, any nationality in the world. It was a plot by white liberals to gain black political power for themselves and their wild ideas, and for a few black bourgeoisie who were paid to exercise leverage as black spokesmen.
~ James Meredith
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Marxists, fascism's first victims, were accustomed to thinking of history as the grand unfolding of deep processes through the clash of economic systems. Even before Mussolini had fully consolidated his power, they were ready with a definition of fascism as "the instrument of the big bourgeoisie for fighting the proletariat when the legal means available to the state proved insufficient to subdue them.
~ Robert O. Paxton
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Estou falando sério:o segredo está em proporcionar um enterro digno às pessoas de poucos recursos, inclusive com alguma elegância (nisso os franceses, acredite, são campeões), um funeral de burgueses para a pequena burguesia e um funeral de pequenos-burgueses para o proletariado, esse é o segredo de tudo, não só das empresas funerárias, mas da vida em geral!
~ Roberto Bolano
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If Mr. Hauser finds that he is concerned with entities in history which constantly elude his grasp, if he finds that the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, rationalism and subjectivism constantly seem to change places in his field of vision, he should ask himself whether he is looking through a telescope or a kaleidoscope.
~ E.H. Gombrich
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The history of the industrial revolution shows how that power passed from the king and the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie. Universal suffrage and universal schooling reinforced this tendency, and at last even the bourgeoisie stood in fear of the com- mon people. For the masses promised to become king.
~ Edward Bernays
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The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.
~ Anonymous
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Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the race of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.
~ Anonymous
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The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie has, historically, played a most revolutionary role.
~ Anonymous
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The unfortunate thing about our age of transition is that the present system of education, which is a class system, has made culture a class privilege. The workers, who are in the vanguard of our country's rebirth, are not the ones who possess the literary means of expressing the heroic experiences they are living. And conversely the writer, usually molded by the bourgeoisie, has been cut off from practical social activity, from the world of labor.
~ Roger Garaudy
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The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth.
~ Roland Barthes
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La burguesía es una podredumbre perfecta. Nunca, desde los tiempos bíblicos, nos ha sobrevivido una plaga más insidiosa, más obscena y más degradante que la viscosa sujeción burguesa. ¡Una clase astutamente tiránica, codiciosa, rapaz, y tartufesca hasta la médula!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Literature, the ultimate gift for expressing the most subtle aspects of man's thought and feeling, may not survive persecution: first by religion, then by the bourgeoisie, then by Marxism, and now by commercialism. The
~ Anais Nin
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I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life of the bourgeoisie. A sign, moreover, that a man has to earn his own living.
~ Eilís Dillon
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She said that since then she had been very careful never to forget that we are very crowded beings, full of physics, astrophysics, biology, religion, soul, bourgeoisie, proletariat, capital, work, profit, politics, many harmonious phrases, many unharmonious, the chaos inside and the chaos outside.
~ Elena Ferrante
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.
~ Antonin Scalia
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Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.
~ Michel Foucault
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In 1803, the liberal political economist Francis Jeffrey identified the middle class or "middling ranks" as the social stratum in which this progress took place. The reasonable, sober, polite, and industrious manners of the middle classes (in French, la bourgeoisie ), Jeffrey argued, form the cutting edge of civilization's moral, economic, and social improvement, which trickles down to the other ranks of society.
~ Arthur Herman
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Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
~ Julian Sands
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No es el mundo de la burguesía, sino algo más ancho, que cubre transversalmente las clases sociales, lo que Madame Bovary convierte en materia central de la novela: el reino de la mediocridad, el universo gris del hombre sin cualidades. Sólo por esto merecería la novela de Flaubert ser considerada fundadora de la novela moderna, casi toda ella erigida en torno a la esmirriada silueta del antihéroe.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
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but we know. and have always said, that the bourgeoisie is attached to fascism. The bourgeois and fascism stand in the same relation to each other as do the workers and peasants to the Russian Communist Party.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Capitalism tends to isolate, atomize, and alienate people, who are taught to see themselves as "individuals," that is, as isolated atoms. This reflects the social reality of the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie, who are constantly competing against each other.
~ John Peterson
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Out on the Nevsky, in the deepening dusk, a long double file of cyclists came riding, guns slung on their shoulders. They halted, and the crowd pressed in and deluged them with questions. "Who are you? Where do you come from?" asked a fat old man with a cigar in his mouth. "Twelfth Army. From the front. We came to support the Soviets against the damn' bourgeoisie!
~ John Reed
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I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists. I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table manners. Yet after all why not? Why should a man who thinks all virtue resides in the proletariat still take such pains to drink his soup silently? It can only be because in his heart he feels that proletarian manners are disgusting.
~ George Orwell
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Sono persone che si danno arie da borghesi. Io non mi sognerei mai di far studiare mio figlio da avvocato
~ Georges Simenon
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