#2,951

The people that awakes, first shouts, then gets drunk, pillages, [and] murders, and later goes back to sleep.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,918

The people is sometimes right when it is frightened; but is always wrong when it becomes enthusiastic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,903

The people today does not feel free except when it feels authorized to respect nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,865

The immigration of the peasant into the cities was less disastrous than that of the notable from the people.
Rural society, on the one hand, lost the structure of prestige that used to discipline it, and the notable, on the other, was transformed into an anonymous particle of the amorphous human mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,780

Only religion can be popular without being vulgar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#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

#2,485

Great stupidities do not come from the people.
First, they have seduced intelligent men.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,246

To speak of a people’s “political maturity” is characteristic of immature intelligences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#2,157

The politician, in a democracy, becomes the jester of the sovereign people.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 351

#2,153

The disappearance of the peasantry and of the classical humanities ruptured the continuity with the past.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 351

#2,081

The phenomenon of the degradation of the people into rabble is the same, no matter whether it is into poor rabble or rich rabble.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 337

#2,070

“People” is the sum of the defects of the people.
The rest is campaign rhetoric.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#2,031

In order to oppress the people, it is necessary to suppress in the name of the people that which stands out from the people.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 330

#1,949

The people wants what they suggest it should want.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#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

#1,699

“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

#1,674

The authentic aristocracy is a popular dream betrayed by historical aristocracies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,620

I am like the people: luxury does not upset me except in unworthy hands.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 268

#1,609

The reactionary does not condemn the bourgeois mentality, but rather its predominance.
What we reactionaries deplore is the absorption of the aristocracy and the people by the bourgeoisie.
It is the emasculation of liberty or, alternatively, of equality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 267

#1,588

No one praises the people except the man who means to sell it something or rob it of something.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264