Existence Quotes

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.

Until the right words exist, poetry will have to do.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Fear not the devil’s darkness which you thought of as moonlight, Fear not, the waves knotted within your heart, which crashes onto your eyes waterline, there? Yes there! In that illusion exists you.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.