To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign;… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
