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Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
Eternal | Hunger | Law | Man | Punishment | Respect | Suffering | Respect |
Anselm of Canterbury, aka Saint Anselm or Archbishop of Canterbury NULL
Although I tacitly admonished you to pay attention to what you hear, nevertheless I did not, it appears, do so in vain. For although you prove sophistically that no/nothing expert-in-grammar is a man—doing so by means of the consideration that being (an) expert-in-grammar is not identical with being a man—nevertheless this proof will be profitable to you when you will behold exposed in its fallaciousness the sophism which is deceiving you under the guise of correct reasoning.
Stendhal, pen name of Marie Henn Beyle or Marie-Henri Beyle NULL
There were a Te Deum, clouds of incense, endless volleys of musketry and artillery; the peasants were frantic with joy and piety. Such a day undoes the work of a hundred numbers of the Jacobin papers.
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.
Experience | God | Hunger | Knowledge | Nothing | Prayer | Will | God |
William Henley, fully William Ernest Henley
O gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, And winter waits behind it. For with the dream foregone, foregone, The deed foreborn forever, The worm Regret will canker on, And time will turn him never. So were it well to love, my love, And cheat of any laughter The fate beneath us, and above, The dark before and after. The myrtle and the rose, the rose, The sunshine and the swallow, The dream that comes, the wish that goes The memories that follow!
Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
The expert knowledge of agriculture developed in the universities, like other such knowledges, is typical of the alien order imposed on a conquered land. We can never produce a native economy, much less a native culture, with this knowledge. It can only make us the imperialist invaders of our own country.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The working class cannot play its world-revolutionary role unless it wages a ruthless struggle against this renegacy, spinelessness, subservience to opportunism and unexampled vulgarization of the theories of Marxism.
Hunger | People | Qualities | Revolution | Work |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The workers and peasants are still timid, they have not yet become accustomed to the idea that they are now the ruling class; they are not yet resolute enough. The revolution could not at one stroke instill these qualities into millions and millions of people who all their lives had been compelled by want and hunger to work under the threat of the stick.
Hunger |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
Veiling truth in mystery.
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
The circling year completes its months since we entombed in earth the bones and remnants of my godlike father. Unless I err, that anniversary is here, the day that I shall always keep in grief and honor.
Hunger |
He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried, he lived, and when he lost his angel, died. It happened calmly, on its own, the way the night comes when day is done.
Hunger |
Love almost replaces thought. Love is a burning forgetfulness of everything else.
Hunger | Literature | Poetry | Wants |