"Technology and production can be great benefactors of……" — Charles A. Reich
"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 own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment, history and tradition, the amenities and civilities, the privacy and spaciousness of life, much beauty, and the fragile, slow-growing social structures that bind us together."
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10 Quotes by Charles A. Reich
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
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Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
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The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
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It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
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