{"quotes":[{"text":"Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition,” says I.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":24080,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I want you to get up, every one of you, and go across the road. I want you to sit down on the hillside over there and wait for me to speak to you.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":46691,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect to the governor here, that I doubt seriously that he will do — cannot do — anything. And for the reason that he is owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the capitalists who placed him here in this building.” — Mother Jones.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":69878,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across the border to tromp on our Constitution makes my blood boil.” — Mother Jones.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":72185,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contrast was reinforced on an assembly line, in a cubicle, or in a classroom, the surest path to acceptance in society is accepting standardization. And we more than willingly, relinquish our uniqueness.","author":"Erwin Raphael McManus","tags":["creativity","industrial-revolution","standardization"],"id":117228,"author_id":"Erwin+Raphael+McManus"},{"text":"Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-school-of-economics","evolve","free-market","free-society","freedom","industrial-revolution","laissez-faire","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","markets","voluntaryism","wealth"],"id":129435,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones.","author":"Jerry Ash","tags":["capitalism","child-labor","democracy","economics","great-depression","industrial-revolution","industry","labor","military","mill-workers","miners","mining","political","poverty","robber-barons","slavery","social","sweatshops","unions","yellow-journalism"],"id":191910,"author_id":"Jerry+Ash"},{"text":"Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization had its way with people and places, no one was native to the transformation of the United States from an agricultural economy to the foremost industrial power in the world--the factory being both the cause and the effect of an act of becoming, the likes of which nobody had ever seen before.","author":"Jerry Herron","tags":["change","factories","industrial-revolution","industrialization","modernization","transformation"],"id":201047,"author_id":"Jerry+Herron"},{"text":"Historians of technology have asked why no industrial revolution developed in antiquity. The simple answer seems to be that there was no need, that contemporary modes of production and the slave-based economy of the day satisfactorily maintained the status quo. The capitalist idea of profit as a desirable end to pursue was completely foreign to the contemporary mentality. So, too, was the idea that technology on a large scale could or should be harnessed to those ends. An industrial revolution was literally unthinkable in antiquity.","author":"James E. McClellan","tags":["history","industrial-revolution","science"],"id":222680,"author_id":"James+E.+McClellan"},{"text":"By far the most significant consequence of 'selfish capitalism' (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.","author":"Oliver James","tags":["affluenza","capitalism","consequences","conservative","democrat","experience","illness","industrial-revolution","industrialism","insanity","liberal","mental-health","mental-illness","personal-responsibility","reagan","redistribution","republican","responsibility","science","socialism","thatcher","welfare"],"id":230061,"author_id":"Oliver+James"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}