Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses