Quotes by Barthes, Roland

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. >>

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, >>

The New is not a fashion, it is a value. >>

Quotations about Class

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in t >>

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last >>

When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her h >>

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, what's left of them.

Barthes, Roland