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“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
-The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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“… there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want. These are the poor, and amongst them there is no grace of manner, or charm of speech, or civilization, or culture, or refinement in pleasures, or joy of life. From their collective force Humanity gains much in material prosperity. But it is only the material result that it gains, and the man who is poor is in himself absolutely of no importance. He is merely the infinitesimal atom of a force that, so far from regarding him, crushes him: indeed, prefers him crushed, as in that case he is far more obedient.”
–The Soul of Man Under Socialism (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wild)
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“The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. It was necessary that pain should be put forward as a mode of self-realisation.”
“Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
–The Soul of Man Under Socialism (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wild)