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...countries, notably Britain, the consciousness of poverty results in a drive toward leveling, rather than toward revolution. The Machine is controlled in the interest of reducing the prosperity and power of the "exploiting classes," rather than in the interest of abundance. Economic initiative, instead of being restricted by capitalist greed, is in danger of being fettered by proletarian envy...
...nonviolence and deliberate, organized disobedience to unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
Arthur W. Coolidge, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusotts, condemned the Democratic Party as "a rag-bag of splinter groups, most of its members with either a greed or a gripe" in an address to the Harvard Young Republican Club in Emerson D last night...
Passion for Power. Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of the trilogy, is a Chicago traction magnate and stock manipulator, an obnoxious example of greed, he is socially snubbed and politically hobbled during a reform movement. The Stoic depicts his attempts to muscle in on the underground transportation system of London -a move which is thwarted by his death. Cowperwood's career, as Dreiser editorializes on it, is an indictment of both the social environment which permits unlicensed power, and the compulsions (what he calls "chemisms") which drive men to seek power...
...well-versed in the art of filling out bogus charge slips, make off with an average 500 books each year. A more efficient checking system at the exits and a program to distribute identification cards to men using the library could easily protect the entire student body from the greed of a light-fingered...