#bourgeois

On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like an adolescent: rigid with ancient, middle class attitudes, unable to think for herself, falling back on old verities...victim of her family teaching, shocked by what shocks people, wanting what people usually want. She wants a home, a husband, and her idea of a husband is a man who earns a certain amount of money, helps around the garden, does the dishes...the idea of a good husband that's found in This Week magazine; a viewpoint from the most ordinary stratum, that great ubiquitous world of family life, transmitted from generation to generation. Despite her wild language. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#lifestyle #attitude

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

— George Grosz

#among #armed #bourgeoisie #culture #other

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #bourgeois #few #ignore #make

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#comfort #consuming #convenience #deathly #fire

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

— Charles de Gaulle

#bourgeois #diplomats #i #me #metro

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#bourgeois #five #hundred #millions #periodically

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. ↗

— Rudolf Hilferding

#bourgeois #capital #economic #hardly #impression