Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become ...abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies... him, or else transforms him into himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind befor...e the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woodlands, meadows,streams and rivers-- Blind to all of it all my life long.... Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;... And what is love but a rose that fades?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. [The defendant] is innocent. I am the judge. I am telling you... that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »