"The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few."

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Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

John L. Lewis

#Organization Quotes #Greed Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.”
“People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if thereâ€™s room.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.227, Spiegel & Grau
“The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.”
“There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.”
“That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.”
“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.
“If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.”

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