Bourgeois Quotes

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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

The bourgeois are other people.

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 and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I live a bourgeois life.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.