The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal,...
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Karl Marx
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then...
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Herbert Marcuse
Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Within fashionable good, there's formal and then...
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Haruki Murakami
The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system. . not that the goods pour forth. The justification of capitalism is that it is the only economic system consistent with the requirements of man's rational nature,...
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M. Northrup Buechner
What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate...
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Inga Muscio
More Quotes By Laurence J. Peter
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
