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“So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is theref...”
“There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some l...”
“[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state ju...”
“If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz...”
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes a...”
“A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him...”
“The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.”
“We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great,...”
“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.”
“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexor...”
“If you accept mass production, you accept that a small number of people will supervise the daily existence of a much larger number of people. You accept that human beings will spend long hours, eve...”
“In the technological world...it is no longer a question of dominating nature or society in order to be more free or more happy, but of mastery for mastery's sake, of domination for the sake of domi...”
“Democracy is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people. Capitalism is of the capitalist, for the capitalist. Period.”
“Honey, it isnt democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people, ...”
“I am a citizen of this country, I declare, and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when I put my shoes under my bed. The courageous men, women and children who are with me (blocked ...”
“What the hells the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. Im done with you. You hear me? I want you to go back to your places now and stay with your children...”
“Go home now, says I. Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.What are we going to need it for? asks a voice from the crowd.For guns and ammunition, says I.”
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: I pray for the day when working men and women are able to earn a fair share of the wealth they produce in a capitalist system, a day wh...”
“Turning back to the crowd I say, I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect to the governor here, that I doubt seriously that he will do cannot do anything. And fo...”
“Thats got to stop, says I. The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across the border to tromp on our Constitution makes my blood boil. Mother...”
