“All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.”
Source: Friday (1983), Ch. XXI, p. 214
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Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American author, critic and scholar
Christopher Hampton (1946) British playwright, screenwriter and film director
Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 15 : Black and White Together, p. 168
Max Haiven (1981)
Already, in the state of emergency that the crisis has unleashed, we are seeing extraordinary measures emerge that reveal that much of the neoliberal regime’s claims to necessity and austerity were transparent lies. The God-like market has fallen, again. In different places a variety of measures are being introduced that would have been unimaginable even weeks ago. These have included the suspension of rents and mortgages, the free provision of public transit, the deployment of basic incomes, a hiatus in debt payments, the commandeering of privatized hospitals and other once-public infrastructure for the public good, the liberation of incarcerated people, and governments compelling private industries to reorient production to common needs. We hear news of significant numbers of people refusing to work, taking wildcat labor action, and demanding their right to live in radical ways. In some places, the underhoused are seizing vacant homes. We are discovering, against the upside-down capitalist value paradigm which has enriched the few at the expense of the many, whose labor is truly valuable: care, service, and frontline public sector workers. There has been a proliferation of grassroots radical demands for policies of care and solidarity not only as emergency measures, but in perpetuity.
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Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
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