Bourgeois
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
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Bourgeois Quotations
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Karl Marx
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
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Uta Hagen
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
Susan Sontag
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
Charles de Gaulle
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
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
Karl Radek
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
Christian Lacroix
Bourgeois Translations
bourgeois in Dutch is burgerlijk
bourgeois in French is roturier
bourgeois in Latin is civis
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