12 Quotes by Michael Harrington

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

Socialism is still beginning, a task to be accomplished, not a destiny to be awaited.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Jim was interested in exploring his own opportunities with creating his own fund and we're fully supportive of that.

It was all a bit strange as no other airline seemed to have suffered from lightning strikes and later we were told there had been a technical fault.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.