"Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union."

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Source : "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

Terry Eagleton

#Slavery Quotes #Unions Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.128
“The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.”
“I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.”
“Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.”
“Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!”
“There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.”
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.”

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