Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas. — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in… — Raya Dunayevskaya 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
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his… — Herbert Marcuse 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
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
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
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
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… — Hermann Hesse 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
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense… — Paul Cezanne 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
“Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.” — Gurcharan Das Copy Share Image
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali 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
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. — Rudolf Hilferding Copy Share Image
Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
