Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. David O. Selznick (1902-65) Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. Eduard Shevardnadze (b. 1927), Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepeneurs . . . free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids-without any social relevance or human responsibility at all. Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941) The bourgeoisie . . . has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals. . . . The bourgeoisie . . . draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization. . . . It has created enormous cities . . . and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. . . . The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95)