Bourgeois Democratic Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words bourgeois, democratic and/or revolution:

    “Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses’ beard!”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “O God, that one might read the book of fate,
    And see the revolution of the times
    Make mountains level, and the continent,
    Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
    Into the sea.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)