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“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”

People Seems Life Is Turns Wish Victim Competition Criminals Oppressed Oppressors

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

“Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.”

People Men Bigs Fall Community Wealth Struggle Share Capitalism Fellows Victim Competition Available Every Man

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.”

“One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.”

Humans Problem Interest Community Forget Rights Special Expression Victim Competition Human Rights Unnecessary Special Interests

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.”

States Helping Liberty Steps Survival Labor Victim Competition Notion Inevitable Capitalist Mistaken Powerless Hostile Despotism Survival Of The Fittest Unsafe Fleece

Book:The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood

Source: The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood

“We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.”

Crisis Victim Competition Individualism 1930s

Author:Rafael Correa

“I don't think about competition. I am definitely attracted to not just playing a regular character - I don't know there's any such thing as "regular. In American Crime, I get to play a runaway who's living with her pimp in North Carolina and she's a prostitute, but she's a victim of human trafficking because she's under 18. I like those roles. That's what I wanted; I wanted to play someone that was a challenge.”

Thinking Character Challenges Crime Victim Competition Runaway Pimp

Author:Ana Mulvoy-Ten

“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”

Life Funny Life Is Victim Competition Criminals Funny Life

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

“Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy”

Knows Way Firsts Sides Behinds Saws Cold Victim Competition Caught Shoulders Grass Vegetables Rushing Yelling Advancing Tents Zeppelins Puck Horde Marrow

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.”

Men Wells Made Done Inspiration Might Wanted Duty Victory Shots England Victim Competition Terror Profession Architecture Architect Suggestions Navy Admiral Great Victory

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Every successful competitive practice has victims. The more successful a new method of making and distributing a product, the more victims, the deeper the victims' injury”

Practice Successful Products Method Victim Competition Deeper Injury

Author:Frank H. Easterbrook

“A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.”

Fall Successful Politician Victim Strategy Competition Inevitable Firm Continuing Competitors Employing

Author:William Cohen