“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .” CultureHeroAntsCivilisationBourgeois Author:Susan Sontag
“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.” MayConformityReignProsperousBourgeoisSuburbs Author:Louis Kronenberger
“I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.” WayValuesOpinionBourgeoisWay To LiveTabloidsPopular Opinion Author:James Salter
“Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.” LeftClassCenturyKeysAreasContrastAbstractionBourgeoisProletariatBourgeoisiePetite Author:Roland Barthes
“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.” PeopleIfsMenWantShouldWellsIdeasMightActionOpinionWorryAliveMarriedVoteTerrorMinistersPrimeBuriedConventionsAmbitiousInferiorsPrime MinisterPettyMisunderstoodOutrageBourgeoisSalmonViolinistModifying Author:Aleister Crowley
“If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.” IfsWantActorsExistenceProfessionBourgeois Author:Uta Hagen
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.” WholeDreamFreedomLevelsDemocracyStupidRaisesStupidityBourgeoisDemocracies HaveBourgeoisieVoting And Democracy Author:Gustave Flaubert
“Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.” CoursesNew YorkAreasFormerNeighborhoodBourgeoisSoho Author:Andre Balazs
“I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.” QuietBourgeois Author:Carla Bruni
“I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.” FeministActiveContraryFamily LifeBourgeoisFamily Love Author:Carla Bruni