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

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

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

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

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.

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.