Bourgeois Quotes · Page 10

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

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

— Eugene Ionesco

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or…

— Milan Kundera

I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies…

— Tom Ford

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside…

— Jacob Epstein

Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only…

— Andrei Sakharov

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

— Louise Bourgeois

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

— Peter Drucker

If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and…

— Karl Marx

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

— Michael Caine

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In…

— Honore de Balzac

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the…

— Jacques Ellul

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog,…

— Alexander Blok

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the…

— Roger Scruton

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash…

— H. L. Mencken

“That night, I hated father. He smelt of cabbage. There was cigarette ash all over his trousers. His untidy moustache was yellower…

— Mervyn Peake

And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of…

— Tony Kushner

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets…

— Walter Benjamin

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in…

— Raya Dunayevskaya

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own…

— Karl Marx

The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

— Joseph Goebbels

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human…

— Karl Jaspers