“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
Bourgeois values aren't just for white people. The irony is: Bourgeois values can help minorities get ahead. — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love… — Alexandra Cassavetes 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
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap,… — Allan Bloom 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
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
I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of… — Albert Einstein 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
It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick 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
“On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called… — Theodore Kaczynski 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
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. — Rosa Luxemburg 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
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
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You… — Zadie Smith 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
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
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo. — Bell Hooks 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
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“For such bourgeois types, maintaining harmony always comes first. They cannot, nor do they wish to, comprehend that life can treat others… — Andreas Kollender Copy Share Image
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
