Bourgeois Quotes

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx
Living Society Independent Individuality Bourgeois Person Dependent While Capital
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
Needs Society Ability Horizon Only Higher Bourgeois Narrow His Left According Behind Banner Then Communist Fully Each Right Phase
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert
Democracy Stupidity Proletarian Dream Attained Bourgeois Whole Level Raise
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hermann Hesse
Liberty Fire Pleasant Pleasure Temperature Consuming Bourgeois Comfort Deathly Convenience Inner
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so. Che Guevara
Me Face Earth Married Married Couple Worthy Would Given More Wipe Bourgeois Employed Institutions Couple Than Whale Common
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
Class Too Proletariat Rising Bourgeois Historical Undoubtedly Domination Against Capital Working Working-Class Socialist Grave Necessity
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. Charles de Gaulle
Me People Military Diplomats Only Take Bourgeois Metro Against Who
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
Art Needs Responsibility Few Bourgeois Masses Make Artist Public Realize Ignore
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde. Alissa Quart
Minds Mute Poetry Excess Advanced Arithmetic Like Bourgeois Piercing Around Overly Go Personal Avant-Garde Decorative Technical Imagined
Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead. Amy Wax
People Values White Minorities Bourgeois Get Irony Just Help
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. Andre Balazs
Gritty Neighborhood Evolved Area Mercantile New Bourgeois Most Course York New York Former
Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. Arthur Quiller-Couch
Life Art Me You Will Gentleman Painting Believe Indeed Tell All Your Life Admit Having Write He Prose Spoken Bourgeois Knowing Well Without Very Sir Oh Whereas Anyone Either Your Special English Nay
That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things. Boots Riley
People Punk Big Changing Approach Tactic Bourgeois Been Get Wanna Really Successful Actually Thing Things
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. Carla Bruni
Marriage Thought Something Bourgeois Very Quiet Regular
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Cesare Pavese
State Bourgeois Artists Monks
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. Christian Lacroix
Adhere Follow Individualism Bourgeois Well Italy Taste Certain Organized Elegance Codes
Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appalled when I sold out and did something so bourgeois. I'd say, 'Come on, guys, with what I earn from this job, we can all go to Morocco.' Christie Brinkley
Me World Job Earn Sold Say Bit All My Friends Out Something Guys Morocco Opened Come Bourgeois Go Were Up Friends Modelling Did Artists Little Little Bit Appalled Bohemian
There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit. Christoph Waltz
Art Pure Conceit Bourgeois Thing
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
Spiritual Injustice Rights Women Economics Solely Rights Movement Moral Would More Perform Contains Bourgeois Also Motivated However Movement Regard Aspect Profound
The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality. Clara Zetkin
Spiritual Woman Own Only Develop Individuality Demands Bourgeois Also She Bread Wants Requests Nourishment Her
I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're lower-middle class or working class. An awful lot of your so-called angry young actors have grown up in extreme bourgeois comfort. It really is surprisingly common. Colin Firth
Angry You Class People Young Think Extreme Define Aristocracy Aristocratic Bourgeois Comfort Surprisingly Lot Up Get Represent Often Young Actors Common So-Called Really Working Your Working-Class Who Grown Actor Grown-Up Awful Awful Lot
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. Douglas Sirk
Politics Art You Beauty Had Almost Idea Bourgeois Without Frozen Century
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
Art Revolution Painting Frames Kind Civil Following Civil Wars Bourgeois French French Revolution Dealer Came After Wars Large
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. Ernest Mandel
Society Hundred Thousand Bourgeois Five Revolt Against Workers Millions
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois. Eugene Ionesco
Kind Detestable Bourgeois Most Often Alas
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed. Fidel Castro
Old About Marx Never Bourgeois Concept Executed Talked Judged Judges Were According Who
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