"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."

-- Roger Nash Baldwin

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“Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.”

Source : Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press
“Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.”
“There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?”
“I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.
“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”

Source : "The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography".
“You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it.”
“Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.”
“I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.”

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