Famous quotes containing the words bourgeois and/or revolution:
“Look a here people, listen to me,
Dont try to find no home in Washington, D.C.
Lord, its a bourgeois town, its a bourgeois town.”
—Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter (18891949)
“I want the necessity of supplying my own wants. All this costly culture of yours is not necessary. Greatness does not need it. Yonder peasant, who sits neglected, carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred history to some future ages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)