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The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say…

— James Salter

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

— Thomas Mann

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

— Anne Applebaum

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting…

— Malcolm X

The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after…

— Liam Gillick

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

— Maureen Howard

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values…

— Malcolm X

“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves…

— Allan Bloom

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

— Tariq Ali