"The struggle for individual existence comes to an end. It is only at this point that man finally separates in a certain sense from the animal kingdom and that he passes from animal conditions of existence to really human ones."
"securing for every member of society, through social production, an existence which is not only perfectly adequate materially and which becomes daily richer, but also guarantees him the completely free development and exercise of his physical and mental faculties"
"These new social systems were foredoomed to be Utopias; the more they were worked out in detail, the more inevitably they became lost in pure fantasy."
"The indebted buyer sells in order to be able to pay, or he will be put up for auction. Therefore, money now becomes the sale's end in itself through a social necessity arising out of the relations of the very circulation process."
"The introduction of free competition is thus a public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power"
or have an erection. Cultivation also taught you at what angle to wear your knowledge, how loose or tight or tilted to let it sit on you, which was almost as important as what you knew."
"Or rather, knowledge could no doubt be culled in this way, but something more precious, known as cultivation, could not. That one picked up as one did typhoid or a charming new acquaintance, but it could not be learnt any more than you could learn how to sneeze
and his Old Testament name is Satan, which in Hebrew means something like ‘accuser’. The other image of God is of he who does not need to be appeased because he has forgiven us already, and scandalously accepts us just as we are."
"There are two images of God. One is as Judge, before whom we seek to bargain our way to salvation by performing certain cultic rites and being remarkably well-behaved. This is the God of the pharisees and patriarchs, for whom if it isn’t unpleasant it can’t be virtuous,