One man renounces the use of animal food; another of coin; and another of domestic hired service; and another of the State; and on the whole we have a commendable share of reason and of hope." Ripley did found his Brook Farm, and a lot of good people went and lived there--not Emerson; he was just a trifle too sane to be won over completely, but even he used to go into his own garden and dig in a socialistic way until his little boy warned him not to dig his foot.
That is the trouble with communism, those who dig are apt to dig their feet.

It is easier to call a spade a spade than to use one.
Men may be born free and equal, but if they are, they do not show it.

From his first breath man is oppressed by the conditions of his existence, and life is a struggle with environment.

Freedom and liberty are terms of relative not absolute value.

The absolutism of the commune is oppression refined, each man must dig even if he digs his own foot.