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“There is, however, one difficulty we could not spare the reader: the use of certain terms in a sense different from what they have, not only in common life, but in ordinary political economy. But this was unavoidable.”

Engels.

“These theories go together with their practice; it is necessary to set out on the path of this practice to be able to trace that of the theory that alone makes it possible to account for this practice.”

“This means that for it these irrational forms will be forms of unreason, of reason estranged, forms of man become foreign to himself. In other words, these alienated forms – and we have seen what meaning this term should be given here – are for this discourse forms of alienation in the anthropological sense of the term.”

“A Bird, came down the Walk -
He did not know I saw -
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw”
- Emily Dickinson,
“A Bird Came Down the Walk”

“He thrust his fists against the post and still insists he sees the ghosts”

“It didn’t hover,” he said. “It floated. If floated. There were big bunches of balloons tied to each wing, and it floated. “

“Go to your church and listen to your stories about Jesus walking on the water, but if I saw a guy doing that I would scream and scream and scream. Because it wouldn’t look like a miracle to me. It would look like an offense.”

“It’s a monster,” Richie said flatly. “Some kind of monster. Some kind of monster right here in Derry. And it’s killing kids.”

“And when do I see you again?” She asked softly.
He put an arm around her and held her tightly, but he never answered her question.

“In his last years, like Trotsky, Deutscher clung to the hope that the dialect would make everything right in the end, but his analysis of the downfall of Stalinism grew quite vague.” Robert H. McNeal

“When working in crisis situations, be honest. . .
Do not create a “special situation” unless there is asomething genuinely diverting and entertaining to do. . .
In a crisis situation, do one thing well. Do not arrempt to do two things simultaneously, and badly.”

“What turned on the tap? The bombs and the guns: the ones we drop and the ones we sell and we profit from...
It’s the only way to the UK is via people-smugglers, that’s what people resort to. We have created a market run by unscrupulous crooks praying on the vulnerable.”

“In the French port town Calais, famous for it to historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the jungle, was home to thousands of refugees mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow, to get to the UK. In this squalid shantytown ... the artist Kate Evans brought a sketchbook and an open mind.”

“... The violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.”

“They are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacture himself.”

“‘We never closed the farm. We stayed here working,’ Cartagena said, ‘cleaning up and doing the compost, the way we could.’ Within days, student began crossing the mountains by foot to help out, carrying food home to their families. They planted flowers to try to lure back the bees.”

Running her fingers through a strand of medicinal flowers, she said, “After Maria, we encourage the student to touch the plants and let the plants touch them because that’s a way of healing that pain and anger.”

“The problem with this on relieved portrayal of defeat is that it can reinforce passivity rather than undermining it. The response to Animal Farm gave Orwell every reason to understand this. Yet 1984 reproduces this mistake.”