In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.
Oui, c'est votre idée, à vous tous, les ouvriers français, déterrer un trésor, pour le manger seul ensuite, dans un coin d'égoïsme et de fainéantise. Vous avez beau crier contre les riches, le courage vous manque de rendre aux pauvres l'argen...
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Ringo: There you go, hiding behind a smokescreen of bourgeois cliches.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.
Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and, as if on command, there was an umbrella over...
