"These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town."

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Source : "What Socialist America Will Look Like". Lecture at the SWP’s Friday Night Forum in Los Angeles on January 23, 1953. The Militant, www.marxists.org. July 27, 1953.

James P. Cannon

#Country Quotes #Cities Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1805). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul”, p.51
“I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.”
“We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.”
“Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?”
“Our directives must be reassessed.”
“God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.”
“I believe in something that I do not yet understand.”
“I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.”

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