MANHATTAN TRANSFER, (1925), a book full of history
"...Europe's rotten and stinking. In America a fellow can get ahead. Birth dont matter, education dont matter. It's al getting ahead" (p.18).
"The day that we stop believing in money and property it will be like a dream when we wake up. We will not need bombs or barricades....Religion, politics, democracy all that is to keep us asleep...Everybody must go round telling people : Wake up !" "Maybe i'm too old, maybe I'm dead, but it will come when the working people awake from slavery...You will walk out in the street and the police will run away. All over the world we are preparing. There are comrades even in China...Your Commune in France was the beginning...socialism failed. It's for the anaarchists to strike the next blow..." (p.33).
"The statue of Liberty stood up vague as a sleepwalker among the curling smoke of tugboats..." (p.52).
"What gives me gooseflesh is the armies mobilizing, Belgrade bombarded, Belgium invaded...
. I just cant imagine it ...They've killed Jaures. Who's he ? A French Socialist. Those goddam French are so goddam degenerate all they can do is fight duels and sleep with each other's wives. I bet the Germans are in Paris in two weeks" (p.188).
"A workingman has no country. Moi je suis anarchiste vous comprennez monsieur.
You know why they have this her war. So that workingmen all over wont make big revolution...Too busy fighting. So Guillaume and l'empereur d'Autriche and Krupp and Rothschild and Morgan they say let's have a war" (p.193).
"That's what Capitalism is, a wampire that sucks your blood...day and night" (p.216).