Bourgeois Quotes - Page 10

• It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Government, Hands

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

  Catherine Camus

  Valuable, Hard

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

  Maureen Howard

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• The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Class, Goal, Achievement

  "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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• The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Self, Mind

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

  Georges Bataille

  Police, Agitation, Needs

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• The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, War, Men

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• 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.

  Alexander Blok

  Dog, World, Ancient

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• The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Freedom, Independent, Reality

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, School, Night

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• I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

  E. M. Forster

  Class, Worry, Support

  "Liberty In England", Speech (June 21, 1935), reprinted in "Abinger Harvest", 1936.

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• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

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• How beastly the bourgeois is
  especially the male of the species

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Class, Males

  "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" l. 1 (1929)

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• There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

  Anton Chekhov

  Vapid, Mediocrity, Useless

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Commitment, America, Long

  "The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers" by V. S. Pritchett, (p. 102), 1979.

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• The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Worship, Economic, Economic Power

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• The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Past, Men, Connections

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.101, University of Chicago Press

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Violence, Action

  "The Question of Peace". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293, July–August 1915.

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• In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Beer, Class

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• For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

  Walter Benjamin

  Party, Springtime, Metaphor

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Religious, Class, Organization

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• The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

  Hermann Hesse

  Criminals, Today, Tomorrow

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Farewell, Opportunity, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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