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You can become rich easily but it’s quite hard to become bourgeois – AMYNE E. QASEM	added by Aeqasem 1 year ago
Bourgeois is a bourgeois word. – Bill Beham	added by bellav 2 years ago
This means that a people cannot be made “national” according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense. – Adolf Hitler	added by Normando 3 years ago
I do not think that Donald Trump is a fascist, a racist, or any kind of epithets that are being thrown at him, i think he’s a bourgeois politician that many working people voted for based on hope and change—the same people who voted for Barack Obama elected Donald Trump. – Lea Sherman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the bourgeois neighborhoods, that's where it's a problem. They go crazy over these (EU) issues. That's what's stopping them from voting for us, but in the working class areas they don't really care. – Saint Just	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Women need to be ready to defend themselves ... in a world that is not that sweet, it's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective. – Karl Lagerfeld	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective. – Karl Lagerfeld	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We had room for all social classes : elegant bourgeois ladies, young apprentices, old men, masons and even tramps queued outside, they wanted a curative pedicure, our specialty. – Rita Sorrenti	Found on CNN 8 years ago
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. – Gustave Flaubert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets. – Simone Weil	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro. – Charles De Gaulle	added by anonymous 14 years ago

You can become rich easily but it’s quite hard to become bourgeois

– AMYNE E. QASEM

added by Aeqasem
1 year ago

Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.

– Bill Beham

added by bellav
2 years ago

This means that a people cannot be made “national” according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense.

– Adolf Hitler

added by Normando
3 years ago

I do not think that Donald Trump is a fascist, a racist, or any kind of epithets that are being thrown at him, i think he’s a bourgeois politician that many working people voted for based on hope and change—the same people who voted for Barack Obama elected Donald Trump.

– Lea Sherman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the bourgeois neighborhoods, that's where it's a problem. They go crazy over these (EU) issues. That's what's stopping them from voting for us, but in the working class areas they don't really care.

– Saint Just

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Women need to be ready to defend themselves ... in a world that is not that sweet, it's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective.

– Karl Lagerfeld

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective.

– Karl Lagerfeld

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had room for all social classes : elegant bourgeois ladies, young apprentices, old men, masons and even tramps queued outside, they wanted a curative pedicure, our specialty.

– Rita Sorrenti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

– Henry Adams

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

– Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Karl Marx

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Gustave Flaubert

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

– Simone Weil

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

– Charles De Gaulle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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