Ernst Bloch

"Now to get back to our given Church: it lives almost entirely for modesty and moneyed piety. It zealously inveighs against the harm done to Joseph and the sheep, but it has made its arrangements with …"

"On bourgeois ground … change is impossible anyway even if it were desired. In fact, bourgeois interest would like to draw every other interest opposed to it into its own failure; so, in order to drain…"

"How absurd it must seem for an immortal soul to be destined for Heaven or Hell, and yet be sitting in a kitchen, as a maid, or to see oneself objectified as a mechanic! how falsely the usual sunrise w…"

"In death too, there is always something of the rich cat that lets the mouse run before devouring it"

"In ourselves alone the absolute light keeps shining, a sigillum falsi et sui, mortis et vitae aeternae , and the fantastic move to it begins: to the external interpretation of the daydream, the cosmic…"

"Even where Marx did not soften his main drive to a "revolutionary development," it was still aimed at capitalism alone and not equally at the age-old, lasting core of all enslavement, cruelty and expl…"

"Evil does not approach us as pride any more, but on the contrary as slumber, lassitude, concealment of the "I." … It may make us so quickly contented, that any definitive fire will die down. The venom…"

"The Roman came into the Promised Land that had become less and less as promised. The rich got along quite well with the foreign occupation; it provided protection from desperate peasants and patriotic…"