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"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
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"Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it."
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"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
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"There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants."
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"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism."
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"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."
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"It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'"
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"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."
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"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
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"The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial, external achievement. And most of us carry all kinds of richness which we are unable to translate into that language."
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"Nothing is stranger to man than his own image."
Man
"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."
Individualism
"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
Knowledge
"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."
Perception
"You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices."
Government
"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."
Age
"Art must not serve might."
Art
"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
Life
"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."
Life
"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
Nature
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