New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands;… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is… — Frederick Engels Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
