"There will never be a revolution in the Netherlands, because you are not allowed to walk on the grass there."
— Netherlands

January 1, 1970

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Full quote with translation help from Google: "A few weeks ago I wrote an article in NRC Handelsblad in which I quoted Karl Marx. There will never be a revolution in the Netherlands, because you are not allowed to walk on the grass there, and the Dutch do not do that. Some 150 years ago this would have been the absolute national truth, except for Multatuli, whose hero Woutertje Pieterse expresses a completely different view in his Robber Song..." — A coup in the Netherlands Karl Marx about the N