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

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Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

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The end result of this personal and public impoverishment is a hollow man.

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

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We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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What looks like a man is only a representation of a man who does what the organization requires. He (or it) does not run the machine; he tends it.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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