Quotes 12 Apr 18

The woman with whom I habitually slept was torn away
from my side because she was a hindrance to my
marriage.  My heart which was deeply attached was
cut and wounded, and left a trail of blood.  She had
returned to Africa vowing that she would never go
with another man.  She left with me the natural son
I had by her.  But I was unhappy, incapable of
following a woman's example, and impatient of delay.
I was to get the girl I had proposed to only at the
end of two years.  As I was not a lover of marriage
but a slave of lust, I procured another woman, not
of course as wife.  By this liaison the disease of
my soul would be sustained and kept active, either
in full vigor or even increased, so that the habit
would be guarded and fostered until I came to the
kingdom of marriage.
     --Saint Augustine (354-430)
      _Confessions_ [397-401]; Book VI, Number 15

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their
husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.- Somerset Maugham

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men”
-PLATO

Mors inanua vitae - Death is the gate of life - Proverb

Even in the interwar years when socialism as a political philosophy was much more clearly defined and better understood the terms socialism and communism were capable of different uses. To many socialism was considered to be the first phase and communism the higher phase of Marx's final class conflict. Lenin used them both in that sense and that was why in 1922 the new Russian nation was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But Marx himself had said that 'communism is not for ,us a state of affairs still to be established not an ideal to which reality will have to adjust. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of affairs' and so even among its leading proponents therefore, there was no clarity. Mostly however the terms communism and socialism were used interchangeably throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries as their respective entries in the 1929 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica show -  Labour and the Gulag.  Giles Udy Page 66