Amadeo Bordiga Quotes

#1. Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space ... We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.

Robert McCall

#2. I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

Albert Camus

#3. Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

Helen Van Slyke

#4. There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

Amadeo Bordiga

#5. In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.

Amadeo Bordiga

#6. To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

Amadeo Bordiga

#7. He sensed the presence of death, he sensed the presence of undying love: something broke open inside him, and he thought of the invisible woman, incorporeal and passionate, as one might think of distant music.

Stefan Zweig

#8. They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

David Letterman

#9. He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;
Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

William Shakespeare

#11. Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

Robert Crumb

#12. It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

Vandana Shiva

#13. Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Robert Powell

#15. You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

Maya Angelou

#16. Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

William Carlos Williams

#17. The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.

Amadeo Bordiga