Time Quote by Victor Hugo

“A chair is not a caste.”

— Victor Hugo

“No caste system or aristocracy has survived the centuries with its power intact. Humanity kneels poorly as a whole.”

— Glynn Stewart

“I cannot do even one sit-up / Sit-ups are so bourgeoisie.”

— Stephen Malkmus

“Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And…

— Anne Rice

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of…

— Karl Marx

“The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established…

— Karl Marx

“political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.”

— Ken Follett

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

— Le Corbusier

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the…

— Karl Marx

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 bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of…

— Karl Marx

“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