J. G. Ballard

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

British Author

Clara Zetkin

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.

German Politician

Aleksandar Hemon

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

Bosniak Writer

Tom Hodgkinson

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

British Writer

Luca Guadagnino

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

Italian Director

Keith Haring

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

American Artist

Carla Bruni

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.

Italian Musician

Tucker Carlson

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.

American Journalist

Buenaventura Durruti

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Spanish Revolutionary

Mark Ruffalo

American Actor

Used negatively to describe people overly focused on wealth and possessions.

Material Focus

Indicates typical middle-class attitudes, avoiding anything deemed radical or unorthodox.

Conventional Attitude

Refers to someone's social status, often associated with a level of comfort.

Middle-Class Identity

In history, relates to the class who owned the means of production before the rise of industrial capitalism.

Historical Class

Describes behaviors and tastes considered high class, but might imply pretentiousness.

Social Superiority

Describes safe and traditional choices in culture and lifestyle, often distancing from edginess.

Conservative Tastes

Speaks to a priority on appearing socially respectable and successful, particularly in public life.

Respectability Concern

Depicts a person who is preoccupied with their social rank and outward displays of success.

Status Obsessed

 an incompetent bourgeois failure. He even launched another failed offensive in the war, where Russia had already lost so much, instead of ending it like the people wanted." "It was a constitutional social democratic government, the most progressive of its time. And it could have succeeded eventually

History vs. Vladimir...

 which was considered bourgeois or tacky. And here's just one example. I mean, this is perhaps a representative example of the visual depiction of the female form in the 15th century; here is a representative example

Steven Pinker: Human...

 conservation is a bourgeois concept what we do is we create a huge amount of carbon and we expect poor people to look

Bourgeois