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“Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you”

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Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.”

War Used Suffering Courses Wealth Class Poverty Industry Method China Inequality Dictatorship Distribution Proletariat Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Sun Yat-sen

“Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.”

Spirit Poverty Industry Despair Casts Generous Resolution Cows Generous Spirit

Author:Joseph Addison

“Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.”

People World Certain Poverty Trouble This World Industry Flesh Cures Application Remedy Affliction Prudence Antidote Heirs Temperance

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.”

Wells Today Poverty Industry Fortune Yesterday

Book:Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness

“Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.”

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Author:Ernest Gellner

“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”

Needs Art Hands Government Certain Evil Nations Results Poverty Fashion Dangerous Pride Industry Taste Benefits Spring Infinite Convinced Vanity Neglect Laziness Politeness

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.”

Poverty Millions Industry Wages Fast Food Notorious Employing Food Industry

Author:David Rolf

“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”

Night Easy Difficult Poverty Industry Late All Things Awe Laziness Idleness Poor Richard Scarce Sloth Awe Inspiring

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.”

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Book:The Damned

Source: The Damned