When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade 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
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“There’s only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image