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Power goes to two poles: to those who've got money and those who've got people.

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The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)

Asking a sociologist to solve a problem is like prescribing an enema for diarrhea.

The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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