Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Charles A. Reich

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• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Know
  • Will
  • Prepare

• I have a cat named Dandelion.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Cat
  • Named

• I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Lady
  • Fat

• I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Free

• The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • America
  • Earth
  • Leaders

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Values

• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Risk

• I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.

  

  Oliver Cromwell

• Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Up
  • Live
  • May

• A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Great
  • Moral

• Jill Stein does not have the experience necessary to lead at a national level.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Experience

• In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Coffee

• I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Husband

• One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Book

• I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Society
  • Competition

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• I think Apple Watch might be a tougher sell to current watch wearers than non-watch wearers. Non-watch wearers have an open wrist, and if they cared about the glance-able convenience of an always-visible watch dial, they would be wearing a traditional watch already.

  

  John Gruber

• Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Community
  • Form
  • States