--- title: "23 Bourgeois Society Quotes by 15 authors" description: "Browse 23 Bourgeois Society quotes by 15 authors. Discover the best Bourgeois Society sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/rosa-luxemburg-8744_barbarism_bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroa_2061717.jpg" --- > [Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-luxemburg/bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroads-either-transition-to/) [Rosa Luxemburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosa-luxemburg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/rosa-luxemburg-8744_barbarism_bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroa_2061717.jpg) > [In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-place-of-the-old-bourgeois-society-with-its-classes-and-class/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cd/karl-marx-399_antagonism_in-place-of-the-old-bourgeois-society-wi_985679.jpg) > [Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-against-bourgeois-society-not-by-a/) [Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/ernest-mandel-20715_bourgeois_periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-again_530854.jpg) > [Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/photography-is-our-exorcism-primitive-society-had-its-masks-bourgeois/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/jean-baudrillard-1500_bourgeois_photography-is-our-exorcism-primitive-so_1077603.jpg) > [In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-bourgeois-society-capital-is-independent-and-has-individuality/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/karl-marx-399_bourgeois_in-bourgeois-society-capital-is-independ_1234187.jpg) > [Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-memory-time-recollection-as/) [Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/theodor-adorno-1995_advancing_advancing-bourgeois-society-liquidates-m_57947.jpg) > [Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/bourgeois-society-ought-long-ago-to-have-gone-to-the-dogs-through/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/karl-marx-399_acquire_bourgeois-society-ought-long-ago-to-have_147544.jpg) > [Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/bourgeois-society-is-infected-by-monomania-the-monomania-of/) [Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/simone-weil-544_accounting_bourgeois-society-is-infected-by-monoman_1485345.jpg) > [Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/modern-bourgeois-society-with-its-relations-of-production-of-exchange/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/karl-marx-399_able_modern-bourgeois-society-with-its-relati_1261044.jpg) > [In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melchor-lim/in-bourgeois-society-therefore-the-past-dominates-the-present-in/) [Melchor Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melchor-lim/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/melchor-lim-61_facts_in-bourgeois-society-therefore-the-past_2472172.jpg) > [“The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-modern-bourgeois-society-that-has-sprouted-from-the-ruins-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/899/karl-marx-399_oppression-new_the-modern-bourgeois-society-that-has-sp_2451314.jpg) > [Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/bourgeois-society-is-ruled-by-equivalence-it-makes-the-dissimilar/) [Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/theodor-adorno-1995_abstract_bourgeois-society-is-ruled-by-equivalenc_401019.jpg) > [Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/bourgeois-society-rife-with-an-atomism-or-monadism-of-secluded-egos/) [Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/kenny-smith-2406_bourgeois_bourgeois-society-rife-with-an-atomism-o_2114337.jpg) > [Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clara-zetkin/bourgeois-society-is-not-fundamentally-opposed-to-the-bourgeois-women/) [Clara Zetkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clara-zetkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57d/clara-zetkin-20904_bourgeois_bourgeois-society-is-not-fundamentally-o_1241917.jpg) > [The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/the-disparagement-of-empirical-evidence-in-favor-of-a-metaphysical/) [Max Horkheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-horkheimer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68b/max-horkheimer-16619_bourgeois_the-disparagement-of-empirical-evidence_1108680.jpg) > [The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jurgen-habermas/the-usage-of-the-words-public-and-public-sphere-betrays-a/) [Jurgen Habermas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jurgen-habermas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/807/jurgen-habermas-12339_betray_the-usage-of-the-words-public-and-public_535277.jpg) > [“The relationship between the social and the individual requires special emphasis in our own time, for never before have personal relations become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/the-relationship-between-the-social-and-the-individual-requires/) [Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd5/murray-bookchin-2587_community_the-relationship-between-the-social-and_1278876.png) > [“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/communism-deprives-no-man-of-the-power-to-appropriate-the-products-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/karl-marx-399_appropriation_communism-deprives-no-man-of-the-power-t_2340770.jpg) > [“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/capitalism-far-from-affording-privileges-to-the-middle-classes-tends/) [Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60e/murray-bookchin-2587_advertising_capitalism-far-from-affording-privileges_194434.png) > [“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/when-in-the-course-of-development-class-distinctions-have-disappeared/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/karl-marx-399_communism_when-in-the-course-of-development-class_2105507.jpg) > [“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-p-nettl/the-working-classes-that-motor-of-social-transformation-which-marx/) [J. P. Nettl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-p-nettl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45b/j-p-nettl-91284_change_the-working-classes-that-motor-of-social_138414.jpg) > [“The process by which bourgeois society developed out of the ruins of its revolutionary traditions and memories added the black ghost of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-process-by-which-bourgeois-society-developed-out-of-the-ruins-of/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/hannah-arendt-610_quote_the-process-by-which-bourgeois-society-d_891820.jpg) > [“While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-wilson/while-the-romantic-individualist-deludes-himself-with-unrealizable/) [Edmund Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b3/edmund-wilson-14512_individualist_while-the-romantic-individualist-deludes_2914762.jpg) ## Top authors on Bourgeois Society - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-marx-55237.jpg) Karl Marx 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois-society/karl-marx/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bourgeois-society/#itemlist", "name": "Bourgeois Society Quotes", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rosa Luxemburg" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosa-luxemburg/bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroads-either-transition-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/rosa-luxemburg-8744_barbarism_bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroa_2061717.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/rosa-luxemburg-8744_barbarism_bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroa_2061717.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/rosa-luxemburg-8744_barbarism_bourgeois-society-stands-at-the-crossroa_2061717.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” — Rosa Luxemburg", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karl Marx" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/in-place-of-the-old-bourgeois-society-with-its-classes-and-class/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cd/karl-marx-399_antagonism_in-place-of-the-old-bourgeois-society-wi_985679.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cd/karl-marx-399_antagonism_in-place-of-the-old-bourgeois-society-wi_985679.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cd/karl-marx-399_antagonism_in-place-of-the-old-bourgeois-society-wi_985679.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association…” — Karl Marx", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ernest Mandel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-against-bourgeois-society-not-by-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/ernest-mandel-20715_bourgeois_periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-again_530854.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/ernest-mandel-20715_bourgeois_periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-again_530854.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/ernest-mandel-20715_bourgeois_periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-again_530854.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a…” — Ernest Mandel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Photography is our exorcism. 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In the event, the working class actually came to fulfill most of the optimistic prognoses of liberal thinkers; they have become largely 'socialized' through access to privilege, consumption, organization, and voting participation, as well as obtaining massive social benefits. They have become supporters of the status quo—not vociferous perhaps, but tacit approvers and beneficiaries none the less. The ferment today comes from sections of the community to whom political and social thought has never hitherto assigned any specific role; who have hitherto never developed specific political institutions of their own: youth, mostly students; racial minorities, a few dissident intellectuals—these form the new 'proletariat'. The basis of their dissatisfaction is not necessarily and always an objective level of deprivation but rather a mixture of relative deprivation—consciousness of possibilities and of the blockages which prevent their attainment—and above all an articulate dissatisfaction with the society around them. There is no good reason why such groups should not form, and act like, a proletariat in a perfectly Marxist sense. The economic causality collapses; the analysis of a decaying bourgeois society and the determination to overthrow it remain.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "J. P. 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