Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Monday, 9 February 2009

Insightful quote

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buymore and more of expensive goods, houses and technology,pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, untiltheir debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead tobankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, andthe State will have to take the road which will eventuallylead to communism"

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

Thursday, 5 February 2009

Random Quotes

If u cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work 'n' sit at the gate of the temple & take alms of those who work with joy" - from The Prophet written by Khalil Gibran

How I wish I could do just this.

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Random Quotes

Today morning I saw this comment left by a person called Mari. Once I knew a girl called Marie Riba, a Delhi University law student who had interned with me, I assumed this Mari must be that Marie. Then I clicked onto her webpage and realised she is Mari L. McCarthy, a professional writer herself. Wow a professional write reading my stuff and liking it and bothering to leave a comment! Needless to say I am thrilled to bits. Went through some of her writings. Found this quote in one of her writings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Random Quotes

Socrates: Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.