Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don’t do anything, they don’t make anything, they just stand and take their cut.

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and ‘correspondences’, rather than to realistically depict the world. … the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity....

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as...

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

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...

I’m not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and,...

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

There’s only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d’une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu’il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins...

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this,...

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the...

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms,...