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Connexions Quotations
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Capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value,
to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour.
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.
- Karl Marx
Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10 (1867)
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
- John Maynard Keynes
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
- Noam Chomsky
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
- Albert Einstein
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself.
We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.
The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
- Karl Marx
The German Ideology
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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared,
and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives.
It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other,
the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
- Wendell Berry
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
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The conspicuously wealthy often turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
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Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power,
rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics
– a creed from which you cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?
And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.
- George Orwell
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A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
- Howard Scott
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