Man is a social animal.
Avarice, ambition, lust, etc., are nothing
but species of madness.
What I mean by socialism is a condition
of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master
nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers
nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living
in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and
with full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all....
Have nothing in your houses that you
do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
The forces of capitalist society, if
left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
...Jawaharlal Nehru
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The modern hubris is the refusal to accept
limits.
Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
...George Bernard Shaw
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Our true nationality is mankind.
Every man holds his property subject
to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree
the public welfare may require it.
...Theodore Roosevelt
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To waste, to destroy, our natural resources,
to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness,
will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity
which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
...Theodore Roosevelt
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The liberal party insists that the Government
has the definite duty to use all its power and resources to meet new social
problems with new social controls....
...Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We have earned the hatred of entrenched
greed.
...Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is preoccupation with possession,
more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
...Bertrand Russell
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Concern for man himself and his fate
must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for
the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution
of goods—in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not
a curse to mankind.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Big business has no values. Big
businesses are concerned with making money for their stockholders.
Labor is prior to and independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed
if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and
deserves much the higher consideration.
The man who dies...rich, dies disgraced.
Your system was liable to periodic convulsions,
overwhelming alike the wise and unwise, the successful cut-throat as well
as his victim.
Where there are inequalities of wealth, the
methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy
the inequalities.
Satan now is wiser than of yore,/And
tempts by making rich, not making poor.
"Do other men for they would do you."
That's the true business precept.
Without some dissimulation no business
can be carried on at all.
...Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
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...the right to be full sharers in the
abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn, and the civilization
of which they are the founders and the mainstay; to this the workers are entitled....
Workers of the world, unite! You
have nothing to lose but your chains.
...Karl Marx (paraphrased)
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When commercial capital occupies a position
of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
...a wise and frugal government,
which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
This is the sum of good government....
...Thomas Jefferson
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Labor, n. one of the processes
by which A acquires property for B.
...unemployed labor means human want
in the midst of plenty. This is the most challenging paradox of modern
times.
...Henry A. Wallace
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In union there is strength.
Beware of all enterprises that require
new clothes.
We live under a system by which the many
are exploited by the few....
It would be madness to let the purposes
or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.
We have before us the fiendishness of business
competition....
A decent provision for the poor is the
true test of civilization.
...Samuel Johnson
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