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Letter "B" » bourgeois
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
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Educator)
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Keywords:
bourgeois,
devices,
drawing,
drawing room,
entertainment,
furniture,
Grown up,
instrument of torture,
massive,
par,
par excellence,
piano,
The Piano,
The Social
«The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.»
Author: Renata Adler
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Keywords:
accounts,
bourgeois,
cocktail party,
considerable,
dash,
distress,
documents,
global,
grudge,
local,
modern philosophy,
obscenity,
overall,
overalls,
overpopulation,
satirical,
square,
The Cocktail Party,
unmitigated,
unrealized,
unsatisfying,
variously
«The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois»
«The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire»
«To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois»
«For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order»
«I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.»
«The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.»
«In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.»
«Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.»
Author: Karl Marx
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
Air conditioning,
antiquated,
bourgeois,
compelled,
distinguish,
earlier,
epoch,
epochs,
frozen,
ossified,
ossify,
production,
profaned,
profaning,
revolutionize,
revolutionized,
revolutionizing,
sober,
solid,
sweep away,
swept,
Swept Away,
venerable