Charles A. Reich Quotes

• The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

  Charles A. Reich

  Too Much, Crime, Harm

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

  Charles A. Reich

  Past, Culture, Revolution

  The Greening of America ch. 1 (1970)

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• The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Law, Political

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

  Charles A. Reich

  Country, Technology, Men

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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• My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

  Charles A. Reich

  Thinking, People, Goal

  "'Greening of America' Author To Present Lecture Series". Yale Bulletin and Calendar, Volume 29, No. 4, archives.news.yale.edu. September 29, 2000.

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• Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

  Charles A. Reich

  Forever, Pleasure, Enjoyed

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Machines, States

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Rags, Riches

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Giving

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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• Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.

  Charles A. Reich

  Rewards, Our Society, Saws

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

  Charles A. Reich

  Community, Destruction, States

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

  Charles A. Reich

  Powerful, Growing, Reason

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

  Charles A. Reich

  Evil, Competition, Abuse

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

  Charles A. Reich

  Men, Want Something, Something New

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

  Charles A. Reich

  Technology, Function, Deprived

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

  Charles A. Reich

  Suffering, Quality, Consciousness

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

  Charles A. Reich

  Thoughtful, Land, California

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• What we do not understand, we cannot control.

  Charles A. Reich

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.

  Charles A. Reich

  Choices, Machines, Guides

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

  Charles A. Reich

  Machines, Revolution, States

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

  Charles A. Reich

  Evil, Misuse, Existence

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

  Charles A. Reich

  Opening Up, States, Should

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.

  Charles A. Reich

  Dream, Men, Years

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone. What formerly constituted ownership was split up into stockholders' rights to share in profits, management's power to set policy, employees' right to status and security, government's right to regulate. Thus older forms of wealth were replaced by new forms.

  Charles A. Reich

  Organization, Rights, Government

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.

  Charles A. Reich

  Truth Is, Can Not, Explosives

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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