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“There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue; my heart aches from the consciousness that I am working for money, and money is the centre of all I do.”
― Anton Chekhov

“The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.”
― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.”
― Chico Mendes

“The furies are at home
in the mirror; it is their address.
Even the clearest water,
if deep enough can drown.
Never think to surprise them.
Your face approaching ever
so friendly is the white flag
they ignore. There is no truce

with the furies. A mirror’s temperature
is always at zero. It is ice
in the veins. Its camera
is an X—ray. It is a chalice

held out to you in
silent communion, where gaspingly
you partake of a shifting
identity never your own.”
― R. S. Thomas

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
― Pravin Lal

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb

“I only debate my equals. All others, I teach.”
― John Henrik Clarke

“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
― James Baldwin