Charles A. Reich Quotes

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?

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.

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.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

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

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

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

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.

A work of art is not valued because it changes itself for each person who views it, it retains its own integrity and thus means something unique and marvelous to those who see it.

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.

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.

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.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

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

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.