To win over the working class permanently, the Fascists would have to raise the general standard of living, which they are unable and probably unwilling to do. The struggle of the working class is like the growth of a plant. The plant is blind and stupid, but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will do this in the face of endless discouragements. What are the workers struggling for? Simply for the decent life which they are more and more aware is now technically possible. Their consciousness of this aim ebbs and flows.

When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation after genera…

When one thinks of the cruelty, squalor, and futility of War - and in this particular case of the intrigues, the persecutions, the lies and the misunderstandin…

Consider for instance the re-institution of slavery. Who could have imagined twenty years ago that slavery would return to Europe? Well, slavery has been resto…

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's …

It's so damn hard to bloom: to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desp…