Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded… — Karl Marx 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
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Finally, this is one way to reconcile the delight in beauty with the bourgeois life. Aschenbach, on one reading, has spent virtually… — Philip Kitcher 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 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
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of… — David Liederman Copy Share Image
