"Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible."

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Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

Ernest Mandel

#Way Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Selling Quotes

“Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.”

Source : "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.
“I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.”
“Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1842). “Autobiography. Memoir. The Christian ministry”, p.137
“People simply feel better about themselves when theyâ€™re good at something.”
“Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.”
“Laws are subordinate to custom.”
“I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!”
“I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin

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