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His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent,… — Max Born
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. — Rosa Luxemburg
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand we have the… — Rosa Luxemburg
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of… — Ken Loach
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels… — Saul Alinsky
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going… — Huey Newton
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even… — Amiri Baraka
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art… — Keith Haring
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception… — Theodore Kaczynski
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a… — Che Guevara
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. — Paulo Freire
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who… — Eric Hobsbawm
I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could… — Cat Stevens
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear… — Karl Radek
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is… — David Liederman
If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what… — Bertrand Russell
Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated… — William Z. Foster
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students… — William Z. Foster
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans… — Gary L. Francione
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. — Rudolf Hiferding

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