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Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.
The Greening of America (1970)
We do not see it because we can not afford to-because the truth is too explosive.
The Greening of America (1970)
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
The Greening of America (1970)
Organizations are not really "owned" by anyone.
The Greening of America (1970)
The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State — its laws, structure, political system — is that it possesses no mind.
The Greening of America (1970)
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.
The Greening of America (1970)
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
The Greening of America (1970)
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
The Greening of America (1970)
It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
The Greening of America (1970)
This is the revolution of the new generation.
The Greening of America (1970)
The end result of this personal and public impoverishment is a hollow man.
The Greening of America (1970)
No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
The Greening of America (1970)
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
The Greening of America (1970)
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
The Greening of America (1970)
Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
The Greening of America (1970)
We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants.
The Greening of America (1970)
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
The Greening of America (1970)
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
The Greening of America (1970)
America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.
The Greening of America (1970)
Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?
The Greening of America (1970)