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“Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths”
“Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.”
“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.”
Source: The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
“Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.”
“Marxism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of socialism in all countries, the science of building communist society.”
“Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.”
“Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.”
“Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken.”
“Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.”
“Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.”
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
“Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the liberal optimists was s snare and a delusion... Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the "children of light." Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.”
“Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.”
“Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.”
“Marxist-Leninist atheism is actually a religion in disguise that responds to the needs of the same weakness of the human brain. Instead of gods, communists idolize great men. They are given divine status by being awarded with medals, their history being idolized and venerated, statues or temples being constructed in their name, and receiving state funerals.”
Source: SO MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS OWN IMAGE: The Science of Happiness
“Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.”
“Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.”
“Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.”
“Marxists make it an objective to control education, that's how they control minds, countries, populations. We conservatives don't like to control anybody, we're not even activists. We just leave people alone, figure if everybody has the same morality and the same set of values and is focusing on the same basic human things using God-given human freedom, that things are gonna work out fine. That's what America has demonstrated is true, that's being protested this very day. It's not fine; America's unjust, unfair, and all these things. That's the fight we're in the middle of.”
“Mary adored Jesus as the Bridegroom of souls. Union is the final purpose of love. Jesus by the gift of His substance in the Eucharist unites Himself with our souls as with His dear spouses. As a Bridegroom, He gives them all His possessions, His name, His heart, His whole Self, but on the condition that the soul reciprocates. The soul, His spouse, shall live for Him only”
“Mary Allen has compiled a wealth of tools and resources - both inner and outer - to support you in consciously directing your untapped potential and creating a life that you love.”
“Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.”
Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.”
“Mary Anning and I are hunting fossils on the beach, she her creatures, I my fish. Our eyes are fastened to the sand and rocks as we make our way along the shore at different paces, first one in front, then the other. Mary stops to split open a nodule and find what may be lodged within. I dig through clay, searching for something new and miraculous. We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”
Source: Remarkable Creatures
“Mary Antrim non era l’unico fantasma della sua vita. Forse, rispetto alla maggioranza degli uomini, non erano molte le persone che gli erano mancate, ma per lui queste perdite avevano contato di più. Anche se non l’aveva toccato così da vicino, in un certo modo la morte aveva lasciato nel suo animo un’impronta più profonda. A poco a poco egli aveva preso l’abitudine di soffermarsi sui suoi morti ad uno ad uno, e piuttosto presto nella vita aveva cominciato a pensare che andasse fatto qualcosa per loro. E loro erano lì, accanto a lui, forti di quell’essenza semplificata, più intensa, di quell’assenza consapevole, di quella pazienza eloquente, così corporei e presenti che pareva avessero soltanto perduto l’uso della parola. Quando non li si percepiva più, quando ogni suono cessava, era come fosse ancora lì, in terra, il loro purgatorio; chiedevano così poco, poveretti, che ricevevano ancor meno, e morivano di nuovo, morivano ogni giorno del duro trattamento che riservava loro la vita. Per loro nulla era stato predisposto: non avevano prerogative né onori, nessun rifugio, nessuna salvaguardia. A provvedere ai vivi c’erano pur sempre anche i più egoisti tra gli uomini; ma nessuno, nemmeno chi era ritenuto più generoso, faceva nulla per quegli altri. E così, col passare degli anni, andò maturando in George Stransom una risoluzione: lui sì, almeno, avrebbe fatto qualcosa, l’avrebbe fatto cioè per i suoi morti; e nell’adempiere a quel sommo atto di misericordia”
Source: The Altar of the Dead
“MARY: Are our readers going to know what the Athena Club is?
CATHERINE: They will if they read the first two books! Which they should, and I hope if they are reading this volume and have not read the previous ones, they will go right out and purchase them. Two shillings each, a bargain at the price!”
Source: The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
“Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.”
“Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.”
“Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.”
“Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.”
Source: Prayers Plainly Spoken
“Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play”
“MARY: Cat, should you be writing all this? I mean, Irene still lives in Vienna. Her secret room won’t be a secret once this book is published.
CATHERINE: She said I could. Granted, she said no one would believe it anyway, the way no one believes Mrs. Shelly’s biography of Victor Frankenstein. Everyone assumes it’s fiction. She says people rarely believe in what they think to be improbable, although they often believe in the impossible. They find it easier to believe in spiritualism than in the platypus.
BEATRICE: So she thinks our readers might assume this is a work of fiction?
CATHERINE: Bea, you sound upset by that.
BEATRICE: And you are not? Do you not care whether readers understand that this is the truth of our lives?
CATHERINE: As long as they buy the book, no, not much. As long as they pay their two shillings a volume, and I receive royalties . . .”
Source: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
“MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail?
CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time?
MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying.
CATHERINE: It’s very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola.
MARY: We are not French.”
Source: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
“Mary Cavendish'i ilk gördüğüm anı hiçbir zaman unutmayacağım. Parlak ışıkta belirginleşen ince, uzun, biçimli vücudunu ve daha önce tanıdığım hiçbir kadında görmediğim o ilginç, muhteşem gözlerinde anlam bulan alev alev yanan pırıltıyı. Bu ince, zarif, uygar bedendeki ehlileştirilememiş vahşi ruhun asla ifade bulamadığı sakin, dingin doğasında belirginleşen yoğun gücü... bunlar kafamın bir tarafına adeta kazınmıştı. Ve asla unutmayacaktım.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Mary chimed in: “The Dee of Shakespeare’s time was famous, a sorcerer with political allies all over Europe. He did horoscopes to advise the Queen about her enemies.”
“Thanks to the little runt sounding off to the press, I’m well aware of Dr John Dee,” snarled Robbin’ Robin. “Did you know our Billy Dee says he can conjure spirits from the Parliaments as far back as his namesake in the 1560s? That’s how the PM won the damn election. Dead politicians popped up at Dee’s command. They begged my colleagues to vote for my rival ‘to save the nation’.” Robbin’ Robin did the air quotes that so irritated Mary.”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives. The womb remembers. The womb knows how to weep.”
Source: Jesus
“Mary continued. “Irina flying, Mr. Dee, takes us to meeting you over Swan Lake at Greenwich. You were to act the sorcerer, the man magicking girls into swans. You are a sorcerer, you say. Did you turn Irina Prince into a swan? Did you make her believe she could fly?”
Source: The Swan Lake Murders
“Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.”
“Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
Source: Murder on Family Grounds
“Mary decided that flying was a lot like reading: they both made a body feel free as a bird.”
Source: The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
“Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front”
“Mary did not believe in analysing herself, and she had left vague the notion that sometimes came to her that this anxious unfulfilled sort of loving was the only kind of which she was capable.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Mary did not know what might become of her in London, but she was pleased to discover that she had courage enough to prefer an uncertain future to one she knew would make her unhappy.”
Source: The Other Bennet Sister
“Mary: “Don’t be spiky, when I only want what you want – for you and Tony to walk into the sunset together.”
Mabel: “Then why turn up looking like a cross between a Vogue fashion plate and a case of dynamite?”
Mary: “Well, I can’t make it too easy for him.”
“Mary Ellen called dibs on sending off the DJ, but by her expression when she met back up with us near the pool, we could tell something bad had happened.
"Well, the DJ isn't going anywhere, but we certainly are," she said.
"What do you mean? He isn't leaving?"
"While we were dealing with this train wreck of a wedding, Alfie's daughters convinced the DJ to stick around and play for a party they've arranged inside the mansion."
"You've got to be kidding me," I said.
"Nope. He told me that he doesn't work for me and that we should just go. I'd almost say screw them and let's just leave, but we've got to pack up, so we might as well see what those little she-devils are up to."
We stepped into the foyer to find the entire men's soccer team for the nearby university toting bottles of liquor up the giant circular staircase. Right behind them were the evil daughters, who informed us the party was just beginning for them. Not only did they pay the DJ to stay, but they also took all the remaining liquor from the caterers. Apparently, the girls were resetting the house for a party of their own while Alfie and Camila were gone for the night.
"We are so not getting paid enough to deal with this," said Mary Ellen.
"Agreed." I watched five frat stars stumble out of the kitchen with more half-eaten cake in their hands.
After all, these girls were of age, they technically "lived there," and it wasn't our gig anymore.
"Let's make sure everything from the wedding is accounted for and then get the hell out of this house of horrors," she said.
As we left we could hear the bombastic strains of the DJ blasting "Gold Digger" again. This time, no one cried.”
Source: Without a Hitch
“Mary Ellen was also a woman of logic. But her logic dictated that if all evidence seemed to point to magic, then it would be unwise, logically to discount it.”
Source: All the Bad Apples
“Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.”
“Mary fought a savage impulse to slam the door on the couple. But they were too interesting to ignore in the circumstances of the murder. She caught sight of Richard spitting out a mouthful of hair.”
Source: Murder on Family Grounds
“Mary found again in the adorable Host the adorable fruit of her womb... and began in the Cenacle her new maternity at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist”
“Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.”
Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4