Shari Benham

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Shari’s Quotes

“The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: government, politics

7 likes

“Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state one, either. Socialism is a completely different thing. What is socialism in such case?”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

tags: abolition, capitalism, freedom, humanity, keynes, nationalization, planned-capitalism, political-ideology, socialism, state

210 likes

“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

tags: action, happiness

26 likes

“Then a white flash swallowed the room.
The blast lifted her from the bed.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

tags: bullying, emotionally-charged, humour, low-self-esteem, relationships, school, tense, toxic, unpredictable

45 likes

“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old.
The air is full of our cries.
But habit is a great deadener.
At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.
Let him sleep on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot