Only mothers can think of the future-because they give birth to it in their children.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.