Quotes from Benjamin Kunkel

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

You Up?' What a great question! Just to be asked was to know the answer.

Mais tu crois que c'est quoi, une famille ! Sinon des gens dont on ne se remet pas ?

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

In truth, it is no more clear in our time than it was in Marx's how socialism will come about in either developed or undeveloped countries; what is clear is that for humanity to have a decent future, it must come about.

There is no worse preparation for adulthood than having been a child.

Mais quelle famille solitaire avais-je donc ! J'étais même ébahi que deux de ses membres avaient pu s'assembler pour engendrer les deux suivants. Seulement, des solitaires qui feignent de ne pas l'être... voilà sans doute comment les familles se construisent, et comment la race des gens seuls est devenue si nombreuse.

What solitary people my family were! It amazed me that two of its members had ever gotten together to produce the others. But then solitary people pretending not to be – that must be how families start up, and how the race of the lonely has grown so numerous.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.