# Mythologies

- Author: [Roland Barthes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roland-barthes.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/roland-barthes/mythologies

## Quotes

> The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

p. 151

> Statistically, myth is on the right. There, it is essential, well-fed, sleek, expensive, garrulous, it invents itself ceaselessly. It takes hold of everything, all aspects of the law, of morality, of aesthetics, of diplomacy, of household equipment, of Literature, of entertainment.

p. 148

> Myth is depoliticized speech.

p. 145

> The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

p. 138

> Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.

p. 151

> Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become.

p. 140

> What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

> By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply.

p. 153

> The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth.

p. 146