Thought for the day ...

To be bourgeois is to have a certain type of materialism. You have to think of what that means. It means everything that destroys dreams, everything that destroys anything attractive. That's what being bourgeois means for me. It means security. It's a type of mediocrity of the spirit. It's everything I dislike.

- Jacques Brel, born on this date in 1929

For me, this describes perfectly the bien-pensant.