Definition of Bourgeois

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Definition of Bourgeois
	Bourgeois A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type. A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. Characteristic of the middle class, as in France. Related Definitions: And, As, Between, Brevier, Characteristic, Class, In, Long, Man, Middle, Of, One, Primer, Rank, See, Size, Society, The, Type

Bourgeois Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Edvard Munch

Bourgeois Translations

bourgeois in Dutch is burgerlijk
bourgeois in French is roturier
bourgeois in Latin is civis

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