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“What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation of slaves who think they’re free. Slaves must be fed, housed, even clothed...”
“So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of the human world are perhaps better positioned than anyone else to see this and to fight this globa...”
“Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people... He'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd s...”
“People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its ho...”
“In the two years after No Logo came out, I went to dozens of teach-ins and conferences, some of them attended by thousands of people (tens of thousands in the case of the World Social Forum), that ...”
“[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
“Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his bewigged head. 'Death to the capitalist pigs! Death to...”
“Those who can do those who can't teach and those who can do neither administer.”
“No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.”
“If you fail to plan you plan to fail.”
“Man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.”
“It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.”
“Managers don't have to cook the books to manipulate earnings they often have all the power they need in the leeway built into accounting rules.”
“Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.”
“Remember that when an employee enters your office he is in a strange land.”
“The big unions served a noble purpose once and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable pro...”
“The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.”
“The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
“To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.”
“The white man knows how to make everything but he does not know how to distribute it.”
