Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the…

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force…

— Susan Sontag

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Almost overnight it became laughable to read writers like Cheever or Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

— Louis Kronenberger

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think…

— Helen Mirren

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

— Gustave Flaubert

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a…

— Patrice Pavis

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

— Theodor Adorno

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee…

— Siri Hustvedt

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know…

— Karl Radek

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…

— Karl Marx