"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."

-- C. L. R. James

#Home Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Isolation Quotes

“The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.”
“I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.”
“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.”
“We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection”
“However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.”

Source : Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”
“Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.”

Source : B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.88, Lulu.com
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

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