Will Bell

“The same cause which may increase the [net] revenue of the country’ (i.e., as Ricardo explains in the same passage, ‘the revenues of landlords and capitalists’, whose wealth, from the economic point of view, is equivalent to the wealth of the nation), ‘may at the same time render the population redundant and deteriorate the condition of the labourer’ (Ricardo, op. cit., p. 469). ‘The constant aim and the tendency of every improvement in machinery is, in fact, to do away entirely with the labour of man, or to lessen its price by substituting the labour of women and children for that of grown-up men, or of unskilled for that of skilled workmen’ (Ure, op. cit., p. 23).”
― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1

“He would be like that for the rest of his life and that is what his life was. You would never know how he got that way because even if he told you it would not be the truth. At the very best a distorted memory of the truth as he knew it. There is a sad man like that in every quiet bar in the world.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“It was but an illusion, but that dear little face, still so soft and silent, told them so many things which none other would have heard!”
― Émile Zola, Fruitfulness