Alas Quote by Eugene Ionesco

The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the…

— Friedrich Engels

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

— Maureen Howard

Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves…

— Allan Bloom

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private…

— Clara Zetkin

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

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

— Etta James

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies…

— Walter Benjamin

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

— Thomas Mann

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader,…

— J. G. Ballard

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb