The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

I didn’t want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn’t carry this alone.

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?