Quotes from Charles A. Reich

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?

The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

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.

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

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.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

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

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

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.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

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.

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.

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

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