#bourgeois

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#bourgeois #existence #profession #want #wrong

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#culture #possessions #you

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly. ↗

— Karl Radek

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…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#intellegentsia #education

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

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For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. ↗

— Rudolf Hilferding

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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#gone #in other words #new #new york #other

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ↗

— Karl Marx

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