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Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.
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When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
