Charles Reich Quotes

#1. (Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

Molly Haskell

#2. The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Charles A. Reich

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

Charles A. Reich

#4. My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.

Zarin Mehta

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

Charles A. Reich

#6. Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

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#7. What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Charles A. Reich

#8. I can be really fast, but other people are in the race. So you've got to be able to maneuver around those guys, and you have to be a little more versatile out there on the ice. I bring my fitness that I gained from the long track over to here. Hopefully, I'll be able to put it to good use.

Shani Davis

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

Charles A. Reich

#10. Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

Clark Gable

#11. a redheaded person with an empty stomach was a walking time bomb. I

Diana Gabaldon

#12. The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

Mike Weir

#13. 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.

Charles A. Reich

#14. My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

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#15. Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

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

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#17. Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

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#18. 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 youth, from California to Connecticut.

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#19. One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

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#20. We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

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#21. Judging by the lopsided way she was hunched, with one hand buried deep under the lapel of her coat, Strike deduced that he had saved her by grabbing a substantial part of her left breast.

Robert Galbraith

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

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#23. One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

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#24. 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 my life.

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#25. The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

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#26. The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.

Craig Groeschel

#27. Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

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#28. It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

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#29. Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

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#30. Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

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#31. 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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#32. The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

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#33. The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

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#34. Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

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#35. There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture ...

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