{"quotes":[{"text":"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corruption","greed","greedy","health","human-life","plutocracy","population","powerful","rich","security","social-system","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":35180,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It was a cultural revolution, and was not directed at instituting economic changes. He could thus appeal to old prejudices without threatening the existing economic system. This appealed, above all, to white-collar workers and the small entrepreneurs, as some of the statistics presented in this book will demonstrate. It was their kind of revolution: the ideology would give them a new status, free them from isolation in the industrial society, and give them a purpose in life. But it would not threaten any of their vested interests; indeed it would reinforce their bourgeois predilections toward family...And restore the 'good old values' which had been so sadly dismantled by modernity.","author":"George L. Mosse","tags":["bourgeois","germany","hitler","industrialism","middle-class","modernity","nazism","nostalgia","pre-world-war-ii","preconceptions","prejudice","values","white-collar"],"id":56397,"author_id":"George+L.+Mosse"},{"text":"Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["blood","capitalism","capitalismo","capitalismo-salvaje","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","civilization","collapse","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corrupt","corruption","demise","end","gain","greed","greedy","health","human-life","life","money","plutocracy","population","powerful","profit","profits","rich","ruin","security","social-system","system","wealth","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":212874,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["blue-collar","thinking","white-collar","work"],"id":258002,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.","author":"John Lanchester","tags":["careers","employment","jobs","office","white-collar","work"],"id":328923,"author_id":"John+Lanchester"},{"text":"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["employment","job-losses","kafkaesque","white-collar"],"id":382224,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.","author":"Mozzie white collar","tags":["destiny","fate","mozzie","white-collar","whitecollar"],"id":401840,"author_id":"Mozzie+white+collar"},{"text":"Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","civilization","collapse","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corrupt","corruption","demise","end","greed","greedy","health","human-life","plutocracy","population","powerful","profit","rich","ruin","security","social-system","system","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":459216,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}