Bourgeois Quote by Roland Barthes

The bourgeois are other people.

— Jules Renard

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is…

— Anonymous

“A man cannot live intensely except at the cost of the self. Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as…

— Hermann Hesse

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

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

— Theodor Adorno

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

“It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only…

— Carla Lonzi

“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

“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis…

— Karl Marx

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

— Maureen Howard

“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.”

— Jules Renard

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

— Walter Benjamin