#2,840

Modern society works feverishly to put vulgarity within everyone’s reach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,807

A “revolutionary” today means an individual for whom modern vulgarity is not triumphing quickly enough.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,780

Only religion can be popular without being vulgar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,779

Man no longer knows how to invent anything that does not serve to kill better or to make the world a little more vulgar.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,720

Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,331

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 378

#2,125

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity.
The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 347

#2,088

Vulgarity colonized the earth.
Its weapons have been the television, the radio, the press.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 338

#2,068

The city imagined by every utopian is always tacky—beginning with that of the Apocalypse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#2,061

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts the languages that are in use.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#2,035

Theoretical affability toward vice is not a proof of liberality and elegance, but of vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 330

#1,964

The only man who saves himself from intellectual vulgarity is the man who ignores what it is fashionable to know.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

#1,948

Dreams of excellence do not deserve respect except when they do not disguise a vulgar appetite for superiority.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,893

To call obsolete what merely ceased to be intelligible is a vulgar error.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 310

#1,855

Capitalism is the vulgar side of the modern soul, socialism its tedious side.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,772

Sin ceases to seem like a fiction when we have been slapped in the face by its aesthetic vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,725

We reactionaries escape, necessarily by good fortune, the vulgarity of conforming perfectly to the fashions of the day.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,587

Civilization is what is born when the soul does not surrender to its congenital vulgarity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264

#1,543

Intellectual vulgarity attracts voters like flies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 258

#1,539

Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257