Bourgeois Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words bourgeois and/or revolution:

    “Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality—that there’s been a revolution in American life. Grandma doesn’t live next door anymore, Mom doesn’t work just because she’d like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.”
    —Editorial, The New York Times (September 6, 1983)