King Gillette Quotes

102 King Gillette Quotes

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It is only during the process of changing from one system to another that graft is possible.
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Corporations will continue to form, absorb, expand, and grow, and no power of man can prevent it.
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Economic Law as a ‘Principle’ is the ‘Universal Law’ of creative development and intellectual and material progress.
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Living seeds of truth scattered, broadcast in the soil of modern intelligence will take root and blossom, and the fruit thereof will be deeds and actions, and the glorious dawn of an earthy millennium.
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There is no fork to the road. It is straight and lies plain before us, and sooner or later advanced civilization must accept it.
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Any department, no matter how dangerous, obnoxious, or objectionable the work may be, can always be made to attract its necessary amount of labor, at some price…
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If business is slack and labor over-abundant, capital wields the whip and forces wages down…
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Each individual must earn whatever position he occupies; he cannot be elected to a position…
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With equal opportunity to acquire knowledge… there can be no excuse for those who fail…
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[In 1910] A child of today in our public schools passes from class to class on a basis of intelligence. He has been taught to know that he cannot pass from one class to another until prepared for the change, and you hear no complaint. He accepts the inevitable and does not expect to rise until he meets the conditions of advancement.
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It is a worldwide University of Progress, a path ever upward, flooded with the knowledge of those who have gone before, and is wide, free and open.
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Billions of living cells are the billions of human beings that inhabit the earth, who live their allotted time and die, others being born to take their place, each contributing its intelligence to the great corporate mind.
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The great mistake of many enthusiasts and writers upon economic subjects is their tendency to break away from the base of acquired knowledge, leap across an intervening space of years, and plant their banner of discovery in an unknown and unknowable country.
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To picture Utopia at the end of… a journey is pure imagination, and of no value to the seeker after truth.
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It is not a dream. It is reality.
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Each link is knowledge… and each step in the future must be linked with this endless chain.
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Mankind has been seeking a solution of the social and industrial problem for ages…
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‘History repeats itself’ seemed to be the only answer for this succession of births and deaths of nations.
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The struggle of man upward through all the vicissitudes of the rise and fall of governments has been a long and toilsome journey…
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Might makes right.
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The success of a nation or a people on the field of battle meant increase of wealth by slave labor, and consequently greater power to overcome or to resist the attack of neighbors.
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[In 1910] War between nations is still a menace, but is as nothing in its destroying effects and results when compared with the civil war for individual wealth which has sprung into being throughout the world and made of every man a hypocrite and liar.
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When ownership of human beings became unpopular, the masters found a better way to put the ball and chain on labor. They secured control of legislation and enacted laws which made slaves of all labor.
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Individual corporations are but parts of the machine of industry, and the mass is greater than any individual part or combination of parts…
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Wealth, the product of labor, is the accumulation of many generations…
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Competition in the production and distribution of products is licensed robbery…
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We must change the system.
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Should labor necessary to operate the machine of industry be a slave, be held as in a vice, and forced to work from year’s end to year’s end, always within striking distance of the driver’s whip, simply to pile up wealth for a few?
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Are they screws and bolts and cogs of this wealth producing mechanism, to be used until they rust or wear out, then cast aside for parts that are new?
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Each mind will be a star in the constellation of millions of stars and planets: each revolving in its particular orbit around a common central sun, the great orb of knowledge…
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Is it not true that the world would go to smash if it were not for the idle rich?
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Individuals have always been recognized as competitive units in the production and distribution of products, and individual owners of wealth derived from labor.
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Wealth is attracted to wealth, and sooner or later the mass will be poor and the few will be rich.
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Mankind has always recognized co-operative effort by government as a factor of community life, yet never given his sanction to co-operative effort in industry.
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Thank God for Standard Oil, United States Steel, Amalgamated, our great systems of Corporate Railroads, and all the hundreds of large and small industrial corporations!
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Economic Law is the law of life which dominates the mind and directs the reasoning intelligence into paths of least resistance, in arriving at desired results.
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[On the Economic Law of Life] When this law is disregarded, either through ignorance or by intention, nature exacts her penalty, and man individually and collectively is the loser.
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Our nation of industry is like a large manufacturing plant.
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Corporations and Trusts are a direct sequence in the evolution of industry…
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You cannot change human nature.
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