Class War in America: How Economic and Political Conservatives are Exploiting Low- and Middle-income AmericansThe Greal Limbaugh Con, 2000 - 237 páginas |
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Página 190 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Página 196 - But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business ! " cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. " Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business ; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business...
Página 230 - Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.
Página 187 - Master, all these have I observed from my youth. 21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven : and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Página 189 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself ; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.
Página 194 - ... the just man does not permit the several elements within him to interfere with one another, or any of them to the work of others — he sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and his own law, and at peace with himself...
Página 187 - Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Página 189 - A few men own capital, and that few avoid labor themselves, and with their capital hire or buy another few to labor for them.
Página 195 - ... when he has bound all these together, and is no longer many, but has become one entirely temperate and perfectly adjusted nature, then he proceeds to act, if he has to act, whether in a matter of property, or in the treatment of the body, or in some affair of politics or private business ; always thinking and calling that which preserves and cooperates with this harmonious condition, just and good action, and the knowledge which presides over it, wisdom, and that which at any time impairs this...
Página 197 - A merry Christmas Bob!' said Scrooge with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. 'A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and...
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