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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."

"I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism."

"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."

"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines."

"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it."

"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."

"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny."

"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."


"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."


"Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel."


"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."


"Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it."


"I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs."


"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."


"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."


"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."


"One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction."
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