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"Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle."
"Corporations are totalitarian institutions. Board of directors at the top of managers give orders, everyone follows orders..... At the very bottom of command, if you are lucky you can rent yourself to it and get a job , and if you are sufficiently propagandized you may even buy some of the junk they produce and so on."
"I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down."
"The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State."
"I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
"The gift without the giver is rare."
"Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes."
"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around."
"Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!"
"Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them."
"I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner."
"Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?"
"Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!"
"But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give."
"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction."
"We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me."
"It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood."
"Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science."
"And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else."
"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"
