Quotations

"It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."
John Updike


"Likewise Marx completely ignores a most important element in the historic development of humanity, that is, the temperament and particular character of each race and each people, a temperament and character which are naturally themselves the product of a multitude of ethnographical, climatological, economic, as well as historic causes, but which, once produced, exercise, even apart from and independent of the economic conditions of each country, a considerable influence on its destinies, and even on the development of its economic forces. Among these elements and these so to say natural traits, there is one whose action is completely decisive in the particular history of each people; it is the intensity of the instinct of revolt, and by the same token, of liberty, with which it is endowed or which is has conserved."
Mikhail Bakunin in his account of his split with Marx in Marxism, Freedom and the State published in 1950.

"Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats."
Honoré de Balzac