"The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism."

-- Karl Radek

#Development Quotes #Socialism Quotes #Retarded Quotes

“We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 11, 2016
“Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.”
“I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy.”
“If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.”
“It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.”
“I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge...”
“Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”
“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”

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