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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

In every epoch we should endeavor every time to ensure that the historical record is not overwhelmed by conformism …. Those who rule at any given time are the inheritors of all those who have been victorious. On the other hand, the oppressed class should study the picture of its enslaved ancestors rather than its liberated descendants

Philosophers are men hired by the well-to-do to prove that everything is all right.