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Man sells his soul to the devil, he spends the rest of his life trying to stockpile enough money to buy it back.

— Mike Resnick Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future (1986)

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The second you attain power, you become what you’ve been fighting against.

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

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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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