#2,955

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they are up to date with tomorrow’s fashion.
The bourgeoisie is aesthetically more tolerable than the avant-garde.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,870

The results of modern “liberation” make us remember with nostalgia the abolished “bourgeois hypocrisies.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,837

Liberty’s remaining partisans in our time tend to forget that a certain old and trivial bourgeois thesis is the proof itself: the condition sine qua non of liberty, for the proletariat as well as for the owners, is the existence of private property.
Direct defense of liberty for the ones; indirect defense of liberty for the others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,824

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,809

The embourgeoisement of Communist societies is, ironically, modern man’s last hope.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,784

The state has not behaved with discretion and restraint except when it has been watched by rich bourgeoisies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,691

A class-conscious proletariat, in Marxist vocabulary, means a people that has converted to bourgeois ideals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,426

It turns out it is impossible to convince a businessman that a profitable activity can be immoral.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,231

The leftist obviously refuses to understand that the conclusions of bourgeois thought are the principles of leftist thought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 362

#2,216

Identifying the bourgeois class with the bourgeois mentality tricks the enemies of the bourgeoisie.
The liquidation of a bourgeois class in the modern world is, in effect, nothing more than a slaughter that does not imply the abolition of a bourgeois mentality that already dominates all of society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 360

#2,195

For more than a century there has been no upper class.
Barely even a more pretentious segment of the middle class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 357

#2,181

The bourgeoisie, in the feudal framework, settles in small urban centers where it becomes structured and civilized.
With the break-up of this framework, the bourgeoisie spreads across all of society, invents the nationalist state, rationalist technology, anonymous urban agglomerations, industrial society, the mass man, and finally the process in which society wavers between the despotism of the mob and the despotism of the expert.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 355

#1,965

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism.
But it did not understand that social unity is not the totalitarian condensing of individuals, but the systematic totality of a hierarchy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,934

With the disappearance of the upper class, there is nowhere to take refuge from the smugness of the middle class and the rudeness of the lower class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,923

Whoever denies the bourgeoisie its virtues has been infected with the worst of its vices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 314

#1,830

The embourgeoisement of the proletariat originated in its conversion to the industrial gospel preached by socialism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,826

It is not so much the plebeian merriment that revolutions unleash which frightens the reactionary as the zealously bourgeois order that they produce.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,805

“Être absolumente moderne” is the characteristic desire of the petit bourgeois.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 297

#1,795

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 296

#1,699

“A classless society” is one where there is neither aristocracy nor people.
Where only the bourgeois moves around freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283