Journalist Quotes

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you wil

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather.