What we do not understand, we cannot control. Charles A. Reich More Quotes by Charles A. Reich More Quotes From Charles A. Reich We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive. Charles A. Reich explosivescan-nottruth-is Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us. Charles A. Reich enjoyedpleasureforever 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 qualityconsciousnesssuffering 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-upstatesshould 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 machinesrevolutionstates It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil. Charles A. Reich misuseexistenceevil My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success. Charles A. Reich goalpeoplethinking 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 dreammenyears 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 rewardssawsour-society
