Can you tear it apart and reconstruct it, as you would a clock?
What of creative genius in this proletariat millennium of yours ?" "The state will carefully mother that." Gregor laughed sardonically.

"Will there be creative genius under your rule?
Will you not suffocate it by taking away the air that energizes it--ambition?
You will have all the present marvels of invention to start with, but will you ever go beyond?
Have you read history and observed the inexorable?
I doubt it.

What is progress?
A series of almost imperceptible steps." "Which capitalism has always obstructed," flung back Karlov.
"Which capitalism has always made possible.

Curb it, yes; but abolish it, as you have done in unhappy Russia! Why do you starve there?
Poor fool, because you have assassinated those forces which created food--that is to say, put it where you could get it.

Three quarters of Russia are against you.