“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.”
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.