The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly. - Charles A. Reich

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.

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.

What looks like a man is only a representation of a man who does what the organization requires. He (or it) does not run the machine; he tends it.