Bourgeoisie Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Marx reproduced medieval and Reformation millenarian expectations in his utopia of a classless, stateless society.”

— Pankaj Mishra

“The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And…

— Orlando Figes

“A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people…

— Leon Trotsky

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with…

— Cornel West

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious,…

— John F. Kennedy

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

— Thomas Mann

“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social dominance of…

— Murray Bookchin

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to…

— Alexander Blok

“When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of…

— Karl Marx

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of…

— Philip K. Dick

“Accustomed as we are by heredity prejudices and our unsound education and training to represent ourselves the beneficial hand of Government, legislation and magistracy…

— Pyotr Kropotkin