375 Quotes by Walter Benjamin

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write....

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.