“What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.”
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.