I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years. — Jerry Jeff Walker Copy Share Image
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
“Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and… — Mœbius Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
