... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming t...o pass all over the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art to me was a state, it didn't need to be an accomplishment. By any of the standards of production, achievement, performance, I ...was not an artist. But I always thought of myself as one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated.... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones... (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which ... repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. ...Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By ...proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men... of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of pro...duction by workers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smoo...th,--certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter- friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with,--for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment t...hat I quarrel,--and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government. How shall he ever know well what he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he shall treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborliness without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »