All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions at certain stages of history perpetuate and produce such a deficit and even threaten human survival.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old anxieties about health mobility access to facilities simple routine care and attention.

I love being on stage. I'm completely totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.