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“They’re not any smarter than they have to be and they’re just as smart as they need to be.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“Sheddan pulled at his cigar. He shook his head. Not even all that sexy a woman. Goodlooking but in an odd way. Incisors like a Jurassic cat. A man shouldnt ignore a thing like that.
Pleistocene
What?
Pleistocene. Cat.
Yes, well. Find me something that alliterates.”
― The Passenger
Pleistocene
What?
Pleistocene. Cat.
Yes, well. Find me something that alliterates.”
― The Passenger
“But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“In Marxism there are always two ways at least of looking at anything and everything, and the reconciliation of these views is attained only by dialectic artificialities. The commonest device is to use, according to the needs of the moment, a word to which more than one meaning may be attached. With these words, which at the same time serve as political slogans to hypnotize the mass psyche, a cult suggestive of fetishism is carried on. The Marxist dialectic is essentially a word-fetishism.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
“The Marxist dialectic is essentially word-fetishism. Every article of the faith is embodied in a word fetish whose double or even multiple meaning makes it possible to unite incompatible ideas and demands. The interpretation of these words, as intentionally ambiguous as the words of the Delphic Pythia, eventually brings the different parties to blows, and everyone quotes in his favour passages from the writings of Marx and Engels to which authoritative importance is attached.”
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
― Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
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