Artist Quote by Allan Bloom

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the…

— Friedrich Engels

The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

— Eugene Ionesco

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

— Norman Podhoretz

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all…

— Noam Chomsky

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

— Joel Stein

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

— Matthew Arnold

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

— Timothy Noah

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he…

— Dave Van Ronk

“You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the…

— Anonymous