Charles A. Reich Quotes

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• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their…
• What we do not understand, we cannot control.
• 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…
• One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of…
• The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
• Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
• The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
• The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
• 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.
• It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

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