Community Quote by Charles A. Reich

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“Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.”

Charles A. Reich

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No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

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The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

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Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.

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there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

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Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and…

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