bourgeois

Michel Foucault

Jean-Paul Sartre

Karl Marx

is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.

is a pig that eats its own black pudding.

is the regime of private affairs, and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited.

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

is someone who prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

is one who sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

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