
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”
Source: Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
Private Property and Communism, p. 43.
Paris Manuscripts (1844)
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”
Source: Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
The Desiring Machine
Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1977)
Letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72
1770s
Context: Human nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and goodness, which we have reason to believe, appear as respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study.
“Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution.”
State of Fear (2004)
Context: Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution. There is evidence that the television food-fights not only don't represent the views of most people — who are not so polarized — but may tend to make resolution of actual disputes more difficult in the real world. At the very least, they obscure the recognition that we resolve disputes every day.
“To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.”
US News & World Report (23 February 1987)
“The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature.”
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 14
Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 80.
Context: Religion is a link between God and man and man and man. Political ideology is a link between man and man. For this reason the great religions of the world like Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the last of all religions, have outlived and outlasted political ideologies. If an unlearned adventurer in his quest for political power and perpetuation brings religion down from its celestial plane to a mundane level by converting it into a narrow political ideology, the adventurer endangers the link between God and man and man and man.
“There is an eternal antagonism of interest between the individual and the world at large.”
The Individual and the World
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?
Context: There is an eternal antagonism of interest between the individual and the world at large. The individual will not so much care how much he may suffer in this world provided he can live in men’s good thoughts long after he has left it. The world at large does not so much care how much suffering the individual may either endure or cause in this life, provided he will take himself clean away out of men’s thoughts, whether for good or ill, when he has left it.