The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both... bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency ...in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound ...currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can con...fiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surrealism ... is the forbidden flame of the proletariat embracing the insurrectional dawn--enabling us to rediscover at last the ...revolutionary moment: the radiance of the workers' councils as a life profoundly adored by those we love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men mar...ried them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the struggle against sexism demands the destruction of the American state, and ... the immediate personal nature of sexism req...uires struggle against men who enforce that oppression as well as its institutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »