Michael Harrington Quotes

#1. People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Michael Harrington

#2. Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Michael Harrington

#3. It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

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#4. Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

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#5. That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

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#6. Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year - and setting their compensation for themselves - are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

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#7. If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

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#8. The more you gaze into her eyes, the more you will see what you want, what is actually inside your heart. And then she will suddenly vanish and you will wonder how you lost her. So you must close the door on your emotions. Eros is not a painter and he often spoils our work.

Michael Harrington