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“Dont you have any concept of individuality?" she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with her internal states."Individuality is an unnecessary barrier to information transfer," says the gh...”
“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everythings on its head, its a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction”
“There is a lovely feature of the American psyche which rejects the notion that there are victims. In America, attitude is a magical elixir that cures everything. People are supposed to believe that...”
“They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which honor and justice, women's bodies and men's souls, were for sale in the market-place, and human beings ...”
“Recall Marxs fundamental insight about the bourgeois limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (exploitation) are not the unprincipled violations of the principle of equality, bu...”
“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious drea...”
“Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.”
“That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.”
“If you want a job making toys, move to China.”
“The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.”
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal ...”
“My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your ...”
“If everyone stopped pretendingcapitalism would drop dead”
“In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.”
“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually, special privileges. During the Communist era, important offici...”
“Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization of labor in the interests of a minority, which organi...”
“Well, first you will have to eat again, not just like you Earth people do, but the corvalen, one dose is not enough. And once you start down that path, you want more, you need more, and then there ...”
“Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.”
“Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets”
“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.”
