Bourgeois Quote by Maureen Howard Download Open image “To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.” — Maureen Howard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bourgeois Fear
The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
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… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls? — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image