No, I should not go to see the transport manager – I should scram before he saw me vanless and tried to do me out of my rights by putting me on another van for the day.

Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God; and we bring more calamities upon ourselves, by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of […]

The interests of the Russian aristocracy — the boyardom — which by definition defended the social limitations on power (since these were a matter of life and death for it), did not contradict the interests of the peasant proto-bourgeoisie, which by definition defended the economic limitations on power (also a matter of life and death).

While human rights can be viewed as part of the globalising process, 'globalitarians' focus largely on the economic and social, favourably contratsting global 'capital, space, history and power to transform' with the local values and sites of 'labour, tradition and, not infrequently, women, indigenous people, peasants and others who are still attached to place'.