The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“It [bourgeoisie] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If… — Leon Degrelle Copy Share Image
“Here, the mother country is satisfied to keep some feudal rulers in her pay; there, dividing and ruling she has created a… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of Hobbes , it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything,… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image