Bourgeois Quotes - Page 2

• The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

  Dziga Vertov

  Drama, Live Life, Long

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• I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

  Cat Stevens

  Song, Stars, Party

  Song: (I Never Wanted) To Be a Star, Album: Izitso

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• I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, People, Diplomats

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• See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

  Etta James

  Inspirational, Dance, People

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

  Rosa Luxemburgo

  Transition, Regression, Socialism

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• Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Sharpness, Concepts

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• Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Men, Rights, Needs

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• What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Children, Paddling, Hundred

  "Exhaustion and Fulfillment: The Ascetic in a Canoe" by Pierre Trudeau, www.canoe.ca. 2000.

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• Cada vez que una colonia quiere independizarse, las cuestiones que se plantean son: a) cómo echar a los imperialistas, y b) qué tipo de sociedad se construye. Normalmente están los nacionalistas burgueses que dicen: "Cambiemos la bandera y dejemos todo como estaba". Luego están los revolucionarios que dicen: 'Cambiemos las leyes de propiedad'. Siempre es un momento crítico.

  Ken Loach

  Law, Independence, Flags

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• Para enviar a los hombres al pelotón de fusilamiento, no son necesarias pruebas judiciales. Estos procedimientos son un detalle arcaico burgués. ¡Esto es una revolución! Y un revolucionario debe convertirse en una fría máquina de matar motivada por el odio puro.

  Che Guevara

  Hate, Men, Squad

  "La Revolución Cubana : Años de promesas". Libro de Teo A. Babun y Victor Andres Triay, p. 57, 2005.

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• La esfera pública burguesa puede concebirse ante todo como la esfera de los particulares reunidos en público; pronto reclamaron la esfera pública regulada desde arriba frente a los propios poderes públicos, para entablar con ellos un debate sobre las reglas generales que rigen las relaciones en la esfera básicamente privatizada pero públicamente relevante del intercambio de mercancías y del trabajo social.

  Jurgen Habermas

  People, Together, May

  "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)". Book by Jurgen Habermas translated by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence, 1989.

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• El utilitarismo había encontrado [en Self-Help de Samuel Smiles] su galería de retratos de héroes, inscrita con una vigorosa exhortación a todos los hombres a esforzarse a su imagen; este romanticismo filisteo estableció el prototipo de héroe burgués, el oficinista sin dinero que se abre camino hacia la fortuna económica y se gana así su entrada en la plutocracia mercantil.

  John Carroll

  Héroe, Ganar, Chicos

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• There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

  John Carroll

  Responsibility, Evil, Woe

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.64, Taylor & Francis

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• Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.

  John Carroll

  Religious, Men, Comfort

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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• Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.

  Max Horkheimer

  Men, Long, Principles

  "Critical Theory: Selected Essays" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 133), 1982.

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• In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

  Amadeo Bordiga

  Dream, Civilization, Names

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• One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Thinking, Two

  Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

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• Cuando la pasión no se alimenta, se transforma en necesidad. En esta coyuntura, el matrimonio se convierte en una idea fija en la mente del burgués, siendo el único medio por el que puede conquistar a una mujer y apropiársela para sus usos.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Passion, Mean

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• El secreto de la nobleza y la belleza de las grandes damas reside en el arte con que pueden despojarse de sus velos. En tales situaciones, se convierten en estatuas antiguas. Si llevaran puesto el más mínimo pañuelo, serían lascivas. Tu mujer burguesa siempre intentará cubrir su desnudez.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Lying, Secret

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• Los hábitos de cada animal son, al menos a los ojos del hombre, constantemente similares en todas las épocas. Pero los hábitos, las ropas, las palabras y la vivienda de un príncipe, un banquero, un artista, un burgués, un sacerdote y un indigente, son totalmente disímiles y cambian a voluntad de las civilizaciones.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Artist, Animal

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• We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.

  Michel Foucault

  Girl, Real, Dirty

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• Más de una rama de la vanguardia, que pretende romper con la visión y el modo de producción burgueses, sigue atada a ellos a pesar de sus desmentidos y excomuniones. Estamos lejos de haber superado el pensamiento o las prácticas burguesas, a pesar del "intermedio" socialista entre la revolución rusa y la caída del muro de Berlín. La vanguardia ha perdido su radicalidad. Por otra parte, el "teatro burgués" es a veces lo bastante sutil como para coquetear con la vanguardia o hacer "teatro de bulevar inteligente".

  Patrice Pavis

  Pared, Comunicación, Ligar

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• Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.

  Patrice Pavis

  Character, Theatre, Avant Garde

  Patrice Pavis, Christine Shantz (1998). “Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis”, p.43, University of Toronto Press

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• I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Men, Class

  "The Road to Wigan Pier". Book by George Orwell (Diary 6-10 February), March 8, 1937.

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• Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

  Theodor Adorno

  Memories, Past, Leftovers

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