Surplus value is the result either of the appropriation through trade or usury of a value belonging to others, or of the appropriation of new values created by the labour power which has been bought. In the latter case, the surplus value is nothing but the difference between the value created by the worker and the cost of maintaining him. The totality of the capital existing in the world is only the accumulated result of this dual appropriation, as was soon appreciated by sharp observers. Fifteen hundred years before Proudhon borrowed from the Chartist leader O'Brien his famous sally: "What is property? Theft!" the golden-mouthed bishop John Chrysostom told the rich merchants of Antioch: "You possess the results of theft, even if you are not yourselves the thieves."
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"It's not so much a matter of developing talent as not losing it. Like Kenji Miyazawa's poem says: all the talent and power and recourses people may possess will not remain with them for ever."
His eyes took an a faraway look, then he added, "People, too, will some day cease to be themselves... That's how it goes."
That sounded awfully heavy to me.
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“What you don’t get to do is remain neutral. When you have the power that you do, your life is not your own.”
Liking girls when you're a girl was power. It was light. Hope. Joy. Passion.
"Just look at these superfluous! They acquire riches and yet they become poorer. They want power and first of all the crowbar of power, much money – these impotent, impoverished ones!
Watch them scramble, these swift monkeys! They scramble all over each other and thus drag one another down into the mud and depths.
They all want to get to the throne, it is their madness – as if happiness sat on the throne! Often mud sits on the throne – and often too the throne on mud."
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It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you.
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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But before we take up arms, we shall try the power of words.
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As lunch dragged on, I ate and listened to the others talk, lamenting the volume of lines they had to learn for Caesar before off-book day, which was another week away. The envelope felt heavy in my lap. I watched James across the table. He was quiet, too, not really listening to the conversation. I looked from him to Meredith to Richard’s empty chair, and couldn’t help feeling that the balance of power had somehow shifted.
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Power: Humans are so quick to steal... Such shameful creatures...
Moreover, as Damrosch acknowledges, ‘it is the privilege of critics writing within a
hegemonic power to mock “the nationalistic heresy” [ … ]. Among colonized or otherwise dominated populations, literature has long been a prime force for fostering national identity and rallying opposition to imperial or hegemonic powers, and [ … ] literary nation-building has often had a significant comparative and international dimension.
Say “yes” to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.
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Humans have the ability to make dreams come true. This power is a grace given to them. It means that we can ascribe any meaning to a thing and believe it when we look at it. Who could keep one from doing this?
Consciousness is an unlimited mystery. Just like the universe.
(İnsan her türlü yeteneği gerçek kılma yeteneğine sahiptir. Bu güç ona verilmiş büyük bir lütuftur. Yani bir şeye bakarken ona dilediğimiz anlamı yükler ve inanabiliriz. Kim buna engel olabilir ki? Zihin sınırsız bir gizemdir tıpkı evren gibi.)
