"The search for religion is the starting point of thought."

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Xu Zhimo

#Starting Quotes

“Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.”
“A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.”
“Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs.”

Source : Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”
“From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.”
“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.”
“People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.”
“If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.”

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