"Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew."

-- Karl Marx

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“The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.”

Source : Source: the-attic.net
“What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.”
“Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.”
“The bureaucrat fell from the sky.”

Source : "Michael Swanwick: Twenty Questions From Lynne Jamneck". Interview with Lynne Jamneck, strangehorizons.com. November 17, 2003.
“The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!”
“The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.”
“Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.”

Source : Henry Corbin (1998). “The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy”, p.223, North Atlantic Books
“I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.”

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