If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.Bernard Shaw
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?Albert Camus
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.Jean-Paul Sartre
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.Noam Chomsky
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.Bernard Shaw
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.Chuck Palahniuk
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.Albert Camus