The-Bourgeoisie
Quotes on The Bourgeoisie
And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.”
T.S.Eliot (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet
The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German social philosopher, revolutionary author
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species — presentable, eminently presentable.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) British author
The bourgeoisie prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German novelist, poet
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) Russian revolutionary leader
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up. Execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) British critic
