The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people.

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About E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970).

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The time in our own life when we came closest to being convinced by silence was one time at sea in a light fall of snow. We heard nothing — no gravel, no wind, no waves, no wolves, no bell buoy. It was convincing and it was beautiful.

—E. B. White

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry — between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is accepted as a "trade-off.

—Wendell Berry

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You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.

—Mary Heaton Vorse

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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. … Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

—Camille Paglia

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Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.