Eben Moglen Quotes

If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

Eben Moglen

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• People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

  

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• You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

  

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• Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

  

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• The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

  

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• I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

  

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• 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

  

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• And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face And if I can't be near you I would rather be adrift in space And if the gods desert us I would burn this chapel into flames And if someone tries to hurt you I would put myself in your place

  

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• But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws.

  

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• The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

  

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• The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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• If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • Capitalist
  • Goods
  • Proselytism