Bourgeois Quotes

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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. — Michael Caine
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. — Nick Cave
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking."… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in… — Dorothy Day
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women. — Nadezhda Krupskaya
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of… — Raya Dunayevskaya
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence… — Vladimir Lenin
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-… — Adolf Hitler
For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been… — Adolf Hitler
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life,… — Albert Einstein
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they… — Guillaume Faye
Everything I do is inspired by my early lifeâ€, Bourgeoisâ€™ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for… — Louise Bourgeois
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present… — Lionel Trilling
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois… — Max Horkheimer
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and… — Karl Marx
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each… — Karl Marx
We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in… — Nicolae Ceausescu
I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I… — Pier Paolo Pasolini

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