Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese

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.
Rosa Luxemburg

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.
Clara Zetkin

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

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

I live a bourgeois life.
Mark Ruffalo

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

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.
Karl Radek

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

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.
Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

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.
C. L. R. James

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

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

The bourgeois are other people.
Jules Renard

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