Quote by John Steinbeck

“If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if…

— Anonymous

“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".”

— John Steinbeck

The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

— John Steinbeck

“it was the insoluble problems—the false leads and the cold cases—that reflected the true nature of things.”

— Michael Chabon

“Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these…

— David Harvey

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of…

— Eugene Ionesco

“The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear…

— Joseph Goldstein

“Lenina was shocked by his blasphemy. 'Bernard!' she protested in a voice of amazed distress. 'How can you?' In a different key, 'How can…

— Aldous Huxley

“Resolving the issues of one passage does not insulate us forever. There will be other tricky channels ahead, and we learn by moving through…

— Gail Sheehy

“Scientific’ Marxism is dead. Its feeling of social responsibility and its love for freedom must survive.”

— Karl R. Popper

“Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem…

— Reinhold Niebuhr