"Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman……" — George Bernard Shaw
"Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer."
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- Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat… — Ayn Rand
- A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie. — Vladimir Lenin
- LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We… — Terence McKenna
- The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. — Vladimir Lenin
- What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are… — Karl Marx
- The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people… — Vladimir Lenin
- It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of… — Frei Betto
- What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not… — John Berger
- The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother. — Vladimir Lenin
- Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned… — Tayeb Salih
- If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the… — Lionel Trilling
- In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before… — Walter Benjamin