The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Religion is the opiate of the people.
Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.