"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

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"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."

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"Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State."

Economy, First, Gain, Land, State

"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."

Property, Folly, Laws

"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."

Opinion, Property, Worth, Writer

"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."

Dream, Dreams, Faith, Men, Losing

"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."

Society, Labor

"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."

Land, Ownership, Profit, State

"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual."

Man, Men, Financial, Connection, Fraud

"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."

Society, Class, Extreme, Force

"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."

Life, Experience, Character, Labor

"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."

Communication, Country, Waste

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"If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder."

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"It is possible to be a puppet on a string, controlled by hidden forces."

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"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."

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"Through all life changes , God is in control."

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"God's goal is to establish His righteousness on this earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Ambalal Muljibhai' (Dada's relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and 'we' (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of nischaya (realm of the Self). Worldly interaction should not be scorned at, at all."

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"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Control, Truth, Power, Sex, Work

"What you don't know, you can't tell. Or made to tell."

Stephen King, American Author

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"There is always the potential to manage every element of your reality."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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