Charles A. Reich famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Consciousness #Persons
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

#Rights #Government #Organization
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
My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Thinking #People #Goal
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
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
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
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
We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Truth Is #Can Not
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
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Years #Liberty #Twenties
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
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
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
No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Gains #Persons
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
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Technology #Function
What we do not understand, we cannot control.
-- Charles A. Reich
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 #America #Land
One of the problems with fame â€¦ is they try to pigeonhole youâ€¦ like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
-- Charles A. Reich

#America #Trying #Problem
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Dream #Rags #Riches
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Optimism #Depth #Fundamentals
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
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
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
It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Evil #Misuse #Existence
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 New
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
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, history and tradition, the amenities and civilities, the privacy and spaciousness of life, much beauty, and the fragile, slow-growing social structures that bind us together.
-- Charles A. Reich

#Country #Technology #Men

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