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“Changes in the way the world is run. We won’t always live in a world where profit is the only thing that matters and the poor of the world lick the boots of a few.”
Capitalism means paying your workers almost nothing for working intolerably long hours, and getting your customers to try and make up the shortfall in tips.
“There’s not much to life, is there? Sometimes you just have to grab it, because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
Anyone who gives a lot of money to the poor must have robbed them first . . . poverty is only the result of the workers not getting proper reward for their labor.”
you knew him, that’s all.
History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.”
changing laws is nothing. To really bring about revolution we must change the way that people think.”
“Bolshevism believes that marriage, even the traditional family unit, is a pillar of our oppressive past. Under Communism, men and women will work for society, and in turn they are supported by society. Children will be wards of the state, not belong to their families. That is the only way men and women can free themselves of the oppressive system.”
“You do the little that you can, then you go home and live your life. You can’t spend your whole life going up and down the same beach. Otherwise it never ends.” “I just want to count for something before I’m done.” “You do count, to me.” He stepped closer.
“You can’t change the world, Kitty. Best you can do is change yourself.”
“It’s easy to care about the whole world, Kitty, isn’t it? But let me tell you, it’s a lot harder to care when you have to do it one person at a time!”
“To have a dream broken, first you have to touch it. It’s no bad thing to be disillusioned. It meant what you dreamed about in the first place was just that, an illusion and nothing else.”
