Bourgeois Quotes

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

— Maureen Howard

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

— Vladimir Lenin

I live a bourgeois life.

— Mark Ruffalo

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

— Etta James

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

— Le Corbusier

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

— Cesare Pavese

The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

— Johannes Grenzfurthner

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

— D. H. Lawrence

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

— Louise Bourgeois

In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.”

— Karl Marx

“The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.”

— Arthur Rimbaud

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

— Eugene Ionesco

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but…

— Lionel Trilling

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You…

— Zadie Smith

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal…

— Anne Applebaum

“For such bourgeois types, maintaining harmony always comes first. They cannot, nor do they wish to, comprehend that life can treat others…

— Andreas Kollender

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores…

— Lou Doillon

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,…

— Vladimir Lenin

It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress…

— Georges Bataille

“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance…

— John Carroll

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated…

— Peter Drucker

An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois…

— Vladimir Lenin

People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there…

— Liam Gillick

“In spite of her giddy airs (the phrase used by the bourgeois wives of Yonville), Emma still had a joyless look, and,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d'une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu'il a…

— Georges Mongredien

Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which…

— Adolf Hitler

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the…

— Beryl Markham

In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory…

— Allan Bloom

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called…

— Theodore Kaczynski

“Many of the rioters were obviously bourgeois, the scions of privileged families, as have been the leaders of so many destructive movements…

— Theodore Dalrymple