If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Theophile GautierAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: french
- Born: August 30, 1811
- Died: October 23, 1872
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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Karl Marx