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...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . . — Susan Sontag
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger
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 you… — James Salter
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere,… — Roland Barthes
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or… — Aleister Crowley
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it;… — Karl Radek
I live a bourgeois life. — Mark Ruffalo
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. — Uta Hagen
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day. — Carla Bruni
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs
I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. — Carla Bruni
I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be. — Etta James
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and… — Alexander Berkman
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs… — Simone Weil
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art -… — Paul Cezanne
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich… — Vladimir Lenin
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any… — Vladimir Lenin
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the… — Vladimir Lenin
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on… — Vladimir Lenin
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And… — Vladimir Lenin
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the… — Karl Marx
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever… — Karl Marx

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