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«It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
| Keywords:
bourgeoisie, comparison, contemporary, features, obsessed, stupefaction, tribute
«By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.»
Author: Friedrich Engels
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bourgeoisie, capitalists, Employers, laborers, owners, production, proletariat, reduced, selling, social class, social classes, social order, the class, wage
«What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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achieves, bourgeoisie, cinema, continuity, might-have-been, princes, spontaneous, vagrant, vagrants
«The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.»
«Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
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aristocracy, bourgeoisie, common people, in so far, worries
«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.»
«The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
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aspiring, bohemian, bonds, bourgeoisie, classless, cut short, draw a line, draw the line, Drew, fat, feared, Forever Free, free spirit, greedy, in a way, in low spirits, in short, low spirits, plebeian, Short Cuts
«The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.»
«On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its 'great intellects.''»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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altitude, A level, bourgeoisie, flatness, Great Plains, hills, insipid, intellects, mound, mounds, The Mound
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