Bourgeois Quotes

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.

Little by little the agents have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything, they just stand and take their cut.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?