Quotes with petit-bourgeois

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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Walter Benjamin Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Roland Barthes 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.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Karl Marx In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Karl Marx In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • C. L. R. James In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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  • Jean Antoine Petit-Senn We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
    Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
    French poet (1792 - 1870)
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