"Natural selection, as it has operated in human……" — Barbara Ehrenreich
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be…
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To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the…
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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as…
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is…
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great…
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees…
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and…
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on…
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