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The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. -- Buenaventura Durruti
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. -- Vladimir Lenin
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. -- George Grosz
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. -- Karl Marx
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges. -- Buenaventura Durruti
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. -- George Jean Nathan
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. -- Julian Sands
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. -- Louise Bogan
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. -- George Bernard Shaw
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. -- Vladimir Lenin
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. -- Karl Marx
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited. -- Vladimir Lenin
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. -- Karl Marx
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. -- Vladimir Lenin
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture. -- George Grosz
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison. -- Christopher Lasch
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc. -- Karl Marx
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. -- Roland Barthes
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. -- Friedrich Engels
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie. -- Irvine Welsh
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment. -- Karl Marx
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives. -- John Berger
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. -- Thomas Mann
I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. -- Claire Denis
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' -- George Grosz
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie. -- Niall Ferguson
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry. -- Erland Josephson
Rather than empowering all, consumer and shareholder activism gives greatest voice to those with the most money in their pockets, those who can switch from seller to seller with relative ease. Consumer and shareholder activism is a form of protest that favours the middle classes, an outpouring of the dissatisfaction of the bourgeoisie. -- Noreena Hertz
Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie, -- David Berman
Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass. -- Pablo Picasso
The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie. -- John Maynard Keynes
Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. -- Karl Marx
The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother. -- Vladimir Lenin
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism. -- Talcott Parsons
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. -- Mao Zedong
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. -- Karl Marx
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. -- Vladimir Lenin
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. -- Walter Benjamin
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
The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie. -- Vladimir Lenin
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind. -- John Lennon
It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality. -- Jean Baudrillard
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. -- Karl Marx
[W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly. -- Adolf Hitler
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all. -- Jerry Adler
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism. -- Leon Trotsky
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar. -- Karl Marx
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
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi. -- Russell Lynes
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses. -- Maxim Gorky
It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself. -- Frei Betto
In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. -- Karl Marx
â??The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave. -- Leon Trotsky
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. -- Eduard Bernstein
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests. -- Paul A. Baran

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