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Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. -- George Bernard Shaw
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. -- Karl Marx
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated. -- Clara Zetkin
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. -- Rosa Luxemburg
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. -- Siri Hustvedt
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion. -- Theodor Adorno
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy. -- Walter Benjamin
Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture). -- Kenny Smith
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. -- Vladimir Lenin
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities. -- Herbert Marcuse
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation and maintenance of the power of the national state-that is, the mainstay of all the priveleges of the exploiters throughout the nation. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. -- Simone Weil
I live a bourgeois life. -- Mark Ruffalo
I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be. -- Etta James
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. -- Cesare Pavese
Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. -- Michael Caine
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. -- Uta Hagen
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. -- Rudolf Hilferding
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. -- Karl Marx
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. -- Hermann Hesse
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. -- Charles de Gaulle
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. -- Susan Sontag
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. -- Nick Cave
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. -- C. L. R. James
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe. -- Helen Mirren
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. -- Edvard Munch
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live. -- James Salter
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements. -- Aleksandar Hemon
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. -- Keith Haring
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. -- Tom Hodgkinson
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect. -- Clara Zetkin
I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction? -- Marcel Ophuls
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. -- Karl Marx
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly. -- Karl Radek
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent. -- Lou Doillon
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy. -- Johannes Grenzfurthner
The bourgeois are other people. -- Jules Renard
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice. -- Vladimir Lenin
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. -- Le Corbusier
To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois. -- Maureen Howard
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois. -- Jules Renard
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch. -- Joseph Goebbels
Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois. -- Charles Baudelaire
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species -- D. H. Lawrence
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. -- Italo Calvino
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . -- Susan Sontag
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. -- Marianne Williamson
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. -- Donatella Versace
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. -- Carla Bruni
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. -- Theodor Adorno
Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women. -- Nadezhda Krupskaya
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. -- J. G. Ballard
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. -- Vladimir Lenin
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. -- Rudolf Hilferding
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. -- Paul Fussell
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. -- Louis Kronenberger
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. -- Hermann Hesse
There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949) -- Gyorgy Lukacs
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. -- Jean Baudrillard
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. -- Paulo Freire
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! -- Carl Andre
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. Itâ??s ever so bourgeois to have two. -- Libba Bray
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring. -- Karl Lagerfeld
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. -- Gustave Flaubert
I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) -- Auguste Rodin
French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable. -- Catherine Camus
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. -- Neil Kinnock
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. -- Walter Benjamin
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. -- Gustave Flaubert
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. -- Douglas Sirk
We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box. -- Erica Jong
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas. -- Alexander Herzen
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. -- Octavio Paz
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be. -- Theodor Adorno
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. -- Howard Zinn
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. -- Tariq Ali
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. -- Andre Balazs
The film drama is the opium of the peopleâ?¦down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosâ?¦long live life as it is! -- Dziga Vertov
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. -- Ernest Mandel
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. -- Anton Chekhov
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. -- Walter Benjamin
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. -- Gustave Flaubert
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo. -- bell hooks
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. -- Vladimir Lenin
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. -- Gustave Flaubert
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the MÃ©tro. -- Charles de Gaulle
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. -- Christian Lacroix
Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility. -- Karl Jaspers
The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction -- Karl Marx
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility. -- Anne Applebaum
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster. -- Terry Eagleton
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves. -- Norman Podhoretz
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Donâ??t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir. -- Alexander Blok
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite. -- Richard M. Weaver
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day. -- Carla Bruni
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action. -- Raya Dunayevskaya
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? -- Vladimir Lenin
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. -- Lionel Trilling
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man? -- Karl Marx
Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? -- Milan Kundera
I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college. -- Billy Corgan
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally. -- Alexandra Cassavetes
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored. -- Marina Abramovic
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once. -- Karl Radek
See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers. -- Etta James
I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing. -- John Coltrane
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions. -- David Liederman
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government. -- Malcolm X
The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked." -- bell hooks
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. -- Roland Barthes

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