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
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
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share
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
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share
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
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
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share
