Famous quotes containing the words grass and/or system:
“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principleabsolute busynessthen utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busyand without consciousness.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)
“In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system ... has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes.... Now theyre lunch, and were number one on the planet.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)