24 Quotes by Charles A. Reich

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    The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

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    The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

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    One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

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    It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

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    Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

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    Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

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    America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

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