"Where there is most labour there is not always most life."

-- Havelock Ellis

#Work Quotes #Labour Quotes

“The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.”

Source : Enver Hoxha, Instituti i Studimeve Marksiste-Leniniste (1974). “Selected works”
“Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?”
“... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.”
“It's pretty obvious, isn't it? I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires' guard dogs.”
“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.”
“I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.”
“Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.”
“Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.”

Source : J. A. Jance (2009). “Outlaw Mountain: A Joanna Brady Mystery”, p.6, Harper Collins

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