Petty Bourgeoisie Quotes

#1. The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

George Grosz

#2. The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

Vladimir Lenin

#3. I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover.

Nell Zink

#4. Lighten up." I yawned, pointing across the street to the diner. "If I got upset every time someone beat me, or chased me, or tried to rape me, I'd be crying in my cereal every morning. No one likes a whiner.

Mary Calmes

#5. Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.

Leanne Payne

#6. Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

Virginia Woolf

#9. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

James A. Haught

#10. I howled and howled and howled, rooting my face into her body like an animal.

Cheryl Strayed