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• His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.

  Max Born

  Independent, Science, People

  Max Born (2014). “My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate”, p.270, Routledge

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Kings, Heart

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• I live a bourgeois life.

  Mark Ruffalo

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• 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

  Party, Mean, Ideas

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• I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

  Etta James

  Persons

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• 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.

  Carla Bruni

  Family Love, Feminist, Family Life

  "'My generation doesn't need feminism': Former French first lady Carla Bruni says a woman's place is in the home" By Steve Nolan, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 26, 2012.

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• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  Carla Bruni

  Quiet

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• Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

  Andre Balazs

  New York, Soho, Neighborhood

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• 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

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• 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.

  Roland Barthes

  Keys, Class, Bourgeoisie

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• Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

  Louis Kronenberger

  May, Reign, Conformity

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, p. 122, 1954.

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• The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

  Susan Sontag

  Hero, Culture, Ants

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• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Passion, Order

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, Giving Up, Mean

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

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• One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Horror, Good Things

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• Its such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you dont want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.

  Dan Colen

  Successful, Want, Fame

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Philosophy, Loneliness

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• The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Names, Piano

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.

  Jerry Pinto

  Book, Civilization, People

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• The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Struggle, Agitation

  "he Guillotine At Work : Twenty Years of Terror In Russia". Book by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 38, 1940.

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• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

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• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Essence, Class

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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• 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.

  James Salter

  Way To Live, Tabloids, Opinion

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

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• In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Fun, Beer, Class

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