The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother.… — Louise Bourgeois 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
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
If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is… — Frederick Engels Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
“Many of the rioters were obviously bourgeois, the scions of privileged families, as have been the leaders of so many destructive movements… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself… — Robert C. Tucker 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
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand… — Marcel Ophuls Copy Share Image
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b)… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
![“To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when my mother would want to have people over she'd tell [my father], "Don't start with the gravity stuff." And then he would invariably do this and the guests would look at each other…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1c/paul-laffoley-7077_body_to-have-that-radical-a-mind-in-that-bour_3151518.jpg)
![“Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.” quote by Patrice Pavis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/patrice-pavis-72351_approach_avant-garde-theatre-with-its-distrust-of_59690.jpg)
