Bourgeoisie Quotes

• The revolution was the culmination of a long social and economic development which… made the bourgeoisie the masters of the world.

  

  Georges Lefebvre
  • Revolution
  • Development
  • Bourgeoisie

• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Nations
  • Workers
  • Endeavor

• The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

  

  George Grosz
  • Culture
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Proletariat

• The issue was to wage a struggle against the war, against coalescence with the liberal bourgeoisie, and for the power of the workers' councils, the Soviets.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Struggle
  • Workers
  • Bourgeoisie

• Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Ass
  • Art Is
  • Finger Up

• The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Mistake
  • Philosophy
  • Consciousness

• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Victory

• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Interest
  • Slave
  • Downtrodden

• The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady peaceful advance rather than in a catastrophic crash.

  

  Eduard Bernstein
  • Judgment
  • Advance
  • Communist

• Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Nobleman
  • Greengrocer

• Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.

  

  Willi Munzenberg
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Photography

• When the opportunity has been present, the black bourgeoisie has exploited the Negro masses as ruthlessly as have whites. As the intellectual leaders in the Negro community, they have never dared think beyond a narrow, opportunistic philosophy that provided a rationalization for their own advantages.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Negro
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Exploited

• If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Job
  • Revolutionary
  • Britain

• Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie.

  

  David Berman
  • Romance
  • Bourgeoisie

• LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heaven
  • Drug
  • Psychedelic

• [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Resistance
  • Orders
  • Bourgeoisie

• I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

  

  Erland Josephson
  • Experience
  • Language
  • Humans

• The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Democratic
  • Communism

• Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution
  • Achieve
  • Soldiers

• The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

  

  Anne Applebaum
  • Values
  • Evolution
  • Bourgeoisie

• We must not always attach too much importance to violent attacks on the bourgeoisie; they may be motivated by the desire to reform and to perfect capitalism.

  

  Georges Sorel
  • Capitalism
  • Attack
  • Bourgeoisie

• To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Victory
  • Socialism
  • Proletariat