"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society."

-- Karl Marx

#Hands Quotes #Nine Quotes #Majority Quotes

“Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.”
“I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.”
“The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.23, Macmillan
“What does everybody want? HEAD!”
“Saving was slow and painful.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
“I want you and it will be so, While I have life.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Battle of Evernight”, p.621, Pan Macmillan
“So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.”
“I'm male. You rubbed your...femaleness all over me. I didn't think. I reacted.”

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