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 »
You are the majority--in number and intelligence; therefore you are the force--which is justice. Some are scholars, others are own...ers; a glorious day will come when the scholars will be owners and the owners scholars. Then your power will be complete, and no man will protest against it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur,... The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation and... security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror ...at the desecration of brick and mortar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie ... has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egy...ptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals.... The bourgeoisie ... draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization.... It has created enormous cities ... and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.... The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »