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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. — Gustave Flaubert
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. — Hermann Hesse
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But… — Tom Hodgkinson
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. — Christian Lacroix
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but,… — Rosa Luxemburg
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. — Karl Marx
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its… — Karl Marx
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all… — Helen Mirren
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants;… — Michel Onfray
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. — Cesare Pavese
I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way… — Marjane Satrapi
I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics...… — Marjane Satrapi
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. — Donatella Versace
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic… — Gustave Flaubert
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society… — Sylvia Plath
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I… — Joanne Harris
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,… — Lauren Groff
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those… — Karl Marx
I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois… — Thomas Mann
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and… — Bell Hooks
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private… — Theodor Adorno

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