“Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.” MenHas BeensForceModernConditionsFellowsInvestmentProfitTransformedConsumerismCommodityMaximumFellow ManOverconsumptionModern Man Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?” AsksWonderSocietyConditionsEventsProfit Author:Richard Mitchell
“What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.” WantTurnsConditionsGoes OnComfortComfortableDiscoveryProfitEndlessDiscomfort Book:Philosophy of right Source: Philosophy of right
“If l give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative, maybe you will want to work more.” IfsKnowsWantGivingFeelsLittlesBeautifulUsedBitsCreativeGreaterConditionsLittle BitProfitAbout YourselfBeautiful Places Author:Brunello Cucinelli
“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.” IfsMenNeedsKindHandsLawUsedGivenRightsConditionsHe ManDevelopmentHonorEqualLaborHarmonyProfitProtectionFacultyWomens RightsSelect Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesConditionsPeriodsMassEuropeUnionsProfitFavorsAwfulPreservesEtcRejectsHumankindAggressionDominantFascistsUnrealityAnomaliesSecessionPro War Author:Philip Gourevitch
“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.” WayHumansMayMeanGamesEasyDifficultLossStepsClearTroubleConditionsApproachLogicEmbraceBoundsProfitPermanentAbandonNew Approach Author:Warren Buffett
“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.” BelieveGovernmentChallengesEnvironmentStreetsConditionsSecurityProductsWallClaimsNotesWorkersProfitConsumersCorporationsInvestorsToxicRegulationDiminishTaxpayersUnhealthyEmissionsLendingUnsafeHealthy FoodPredatoryGovernment RegulationBailoutsWorking ConditionsUnhealthy Food Author:Robert Reich