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“Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life were the same: "We have only one life!" So take everything life can give, except one thing: the birth of a child. For a child is an idol who sucks dry the juices of your being without any return for your sacrifices, not even ordinary gratitude.”

Youth1968YoloChildlessnessBourgeois Indulgence
Book:The First Circle
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“Babamın gösteriş merakı... burjuvanın aristokratça gösteriş merakı!.. Ne soy!.. Hani yalnız zenginliklerini değil, iyi yaşam alışkanlıklarını, konfora ve her şeyin iyisine düşkünlüklerini de bir üstünlük sayıyorlar! Bu kişisel bir meziyet oluyor onlar için! Öyle bir meziyet ki birtakım sosyal haklar kazandırıyor kendilerine! Ve bundan ötürü başkalarının gösterdiği saygıyı en tabii hakları olarak görüyorlar! Otoritelerini ve başkalarını köleleştirmelerini de!..”

Bourgeois SocietyBourgeois IndulgenceBourgeois Life
Book:Les Thibault, Volume 2...
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“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton.”

IdentityPrejudiceSelf RighteousnessIntellectual LazinessBourgeois IndulgenceBoobus Americanus
Book:The Mill on the Floss
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“In terms of "quiet" bourgeois democracy two fundamental possibilities are open to the industrial worker: identification with the bourgeoisie, which holds a higher position in the social scale, or identification with his own social class, which produces its own anti-reactionary way of life. To pursue the first possibility means to envy the reactionary man, to imitate him, and, if the opportunity arises, to assimilate his habits of life. To pursue the second of these possibilities means to reject the reactionary man's ideologies and habits of life. Due to the simultaneous influence exercised by both social and class habits, these two possibilities are equally strong. The revolutionary movement also failed to appreciate the importance of the seemingly irrelevant everyday habits, indeed, very often turned them to bad account. The lower middle-class bedroom suite, which the "rabble" buys as soon as he has the means, even if he is otherwise revolutionary minded; the consequent suppression of the wife, even if he is a Communist; the "decent" suit of clothes for Sunday; "proper" dance steps and a thousand other "banalities," have an incomparably greater reactionary influence when repeated day after day than thousands of revolutionary rallies and leaflets can ever hope to counterbalance. Narrow conservative life exercises a continuous influence, penetrates every facet of everyday life; whereas factory work and revolutionary leaflets have only a brief effect.”

PropagandaMaterialismClass StruggleBanality1969Political InfluenceAuthoritarian FamilyReactionary PoliticsAuthoritarian IdeologyDomesticationBourgeois IndulgenceLower Middle Class
Book:The Mass Psychology of Fascism
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