“Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist - all good.” DoeMatterSpiritualArtistTermClassMiddleHeroOppositesSaintMiddle ClassBourgeois Author:Allan Bloom
“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.” MenEyeAgeArtistAnimalHabitCivilizationClothesPriestsBankersDwellingBourgeois Author:Honore de Balzac