Basket/history

Famous quotes containing the words basket and/or history:

“Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)