Pre Capitalist Society Quotes & Sayings

Oh, I intend to kiss every inch of you," he drawled. "I'm going to use my mouth, my tongue, my fingers, and my rod to bring you such pleasure you'll cry with gratitude. — Sadie Carter

You stood with me in the bleak, black house. Don't let the light fool you. Don't leave me. What if you leave? — Annabel Joseph

The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction. — Diamond Mike Watson

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. — Bruce Jackson

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world. — A.J.P. Taylor

In a sense, scattered dots are exactly what one would expect to see in a pre-Enlightenment, pre-mechanized world. There were disbelievers in Greek antiquity just as there were everywhere, but there was no obvious role for mass-movement atheism in a culture where ensuring the stability of the state - which depended on the favor of the gods - was prized above all else. Atheism has prospered in the West since the eighteenth century because society has a role for it: in an advanced capitalist economy based on technological innovation, it has been necessary to claw intellectual and moral authority away from the clergy and reallocate it to the secular specialists in science and engineering. It is this social function that has allowed atheism to emerge as a movement composed of individual atheists. — Tim Whitmarsh

the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump. — Henning Mankell

I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me. — Mara Wilson

With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole. — Henry David Thoreau