“Being pragmatic often means being both urgent and patient, and open to accepting compromises and less-than-full measures in order to take forward steps that make larger shifts possible.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“Progress often requires pragmatism, not purity or perfection. We cannot work only with individuals and institutions that we agree with on every single position on every issue across every single point on a long timeline.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“You can't stay in your parents home and live on their wealth and call yourself a Man!”
“Everyone has the ability to stand on their own feet and make their mark in the world if given proper education.”
“Requesting help is beneficial but be careful it doesn’t become an addiction.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.”
Source: Perfect State
“What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. this is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Laws, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his labouring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.”
Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
“Is the Somebody (the consumer of surplus value) the beggar, the invalid, the cripple, the discoverer, the gambler, the highway robber, the burglar, the defaulter, the pickpocket, or the common swindler? None of these, to any extent worth mentioning. The aggregate of wealth absorbed by these classes of our population compared with the vast mass produced is a mere drop in the ocean, unworthy of consideration in studying a fundamental problem of political economy. These people get some wealth, it is true; enough, probably, for their own purposes: but labor can spare them the whole of it, and never know the difference.”
Source: The Individualist Anarchists: Anthology of Liberty, 1881-1908