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"A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict."
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"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."
"Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them."
"Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference."
"When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility."
"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man""what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?"
"Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation."
"Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands."
"How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers."
"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."
"Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer."
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"Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves."
"Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards."
"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous."
"The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."
"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
"Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action."
"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
"That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar."
"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful."
"Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear."
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