Benjamin/origin

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin and/or origin:

“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... “a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.””
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)