Bourgeoisie quotes
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The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.
-- Christopher Lasch -
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
-- George Grosz -
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.
-- George Grosz -
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Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.
-- Jerry Adler -
Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.
-- Julian Sands -
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
-- Karl Marx -
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 -
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The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
-- Karl Marx -
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
-- Karl Marx -
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.
-- Lionel Trilling -
Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.
-- Pablo Picasso -
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Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.
-- Paul A. Baran -
Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr -
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.
-- Russell Lynes -
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
-- Talcott Parsons -
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A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
-- Vladimir Lenin -
Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.
-- Allen W. Wood -
The bourgeoisie are the only people who want to help me. The enlightened bourgeoisie are the only ones who ever buy anything, look after it, and don't ask for a discount. They want to look after you.
-- Liam Gillick -
Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie.
-- David Berman -
