"By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality."

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Source : Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

Dwight Macdonald

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Personality Quotes

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”
“There's a heart beneath the ***** and a brain beneath the wig.”
“Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border , I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.”

Source : "Gladys Aylward, One of the Undefeated: The Story of Gladys Aylward as Told by Her to R.O. Latham".
“If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.”
“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.”
“We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.”
“Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.”

Source : Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster
“In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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