Petit Bourgeois Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

Roland Barthes

#3. Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Michel Onfray

#4. Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#5. I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#6. I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

Marcel Ophuls

#7. The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Camille Flammarion

#8. Conversations will lift-off when your impulse for personal expression becomes secondary to your interest in hearing from your significant other.

Jeremy Poland

#9. I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

Michelle Phan

#10. You're too focused. Too high-strung. Too ... " Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi's blue eyes. "Too caught up with being in love.

Shanora Williams

#11. Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.

Wayne Muller

#12. Theology, after all, was made for the sake of the church, not the church for theology. I

N. T. Wright

#13. Geeks are finally having their day.

Rashida Jones

#14. A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

George Will

#15. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

Iris Chang