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
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
“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
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution. — Vladimir Lenin 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
We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics.… — Clara Zetkin 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
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and… — Karl Marx 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
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an… — May Sarton 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
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is… — Tahar Ben Jelloun 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
“Bourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one.… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of… — Luca Guadagnino Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
