Quote by Roland Barthes
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to th

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, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

Category:
Interviews
Read Quote

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Sports
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Class
category

No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady. – Proverb

Category:
Class

When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is. – Zoe Fairbairns

Category:
Class

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. – Hermann Hesse

Category:
Class

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. – Christopher Hampton

Category:
Class

Random Quotes

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill

Category:
great

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Category:
Home

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. – Robert Anthony

Category:
Courage

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. – Proverb