Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.