I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most… — Max Born Copy Share Image
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“I think bourgeois fathers – wing-collar workers in pencil-striped pants, dignified, office-tied fathers, so different from young American veterans of today or… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image