The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no s...tate of feeling that says "mine, mine," more fiercely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While enclosed shopping malls suspended space, time, and weather, Disneyland went one step further and suspended reality. Any geog...raphic, cultural, or mythical location, whether supplied by fictional texts (Tom Sawyer's Island), historical locations (New Orleans Square), or futuristic projections (Space Mountain), could be reconfigured as a setting for entertainment. Shopping malls easily adapted this appropriation of "place" in the creation of a specialized theme environment. In Scottsdale, the Borgata, an open-air shopping mall set down in the flat Arizona desert, reinterprets the medieval Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano with piazza and scaled-down towers (made of real Italian bricks).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I must resist it [a rider on an appropriation bill] to the last extremity. I say, first, I object to the repeal of important legis...lation designed to protect the elections, to secure the purity, the honesty, the sanctity of the ballot-box. But what is of far more importance, I object to the bill because it is an unconstitutional and revolutionary attempt to deprive the Executive of one of his most important prerogatives; to coerce him to approve a measure which he in fact does not approve.... I stand for "the equal" and constitutional "independence of the Executive."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enfor...cing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments], and, in case of my refusal, will put the repeal [as "riders"] on the appropriation bills. They will ... block the wheels of government, if I do not yield my conviction in favor of the election laws. It will be a severe, perhaps a long contest. I do not fear it.... The people will not allow this revolutionary course to triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken... for the appropriation of their contents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »