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Michael Harrington Quotes

Life is lived in common, but not in community Picture Quote #1

Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty Picture Quote #1

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery Picture Quote #1

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known Picture Quote #1

Today is always partly tomorrow and can only be understood in movement, futuristically, speculatively Picture Quote #1

One cannot raise the bottom of a society without benefiting everyone above Picture Quote #1

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It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered Picture Quote #1

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society Picture Quote #1

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen Picture Quote #1

Capitalism is moving toward its end massively, imperceptibly, like a glacier. Its decadence is cold, not hot Picture Quote #1

Once man understands that he is caught up in a blind energy, he transcends it. There is light in the darkness Picture Quote #1

With man more and more ubiquitous, with nature transformed from a mysterious given into a product of the human will, divinity is in crisis Picture Quote #1

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The various aspects of decadence cannot be turned into functions of the economy and neither can they be grasped without relating them to this dynamic part of contemporary life Picture Quote #1

Because the slums are no longer centers of powerful political organizations, the politicians need not really care about their inhabitants Picture Quote #1

Even when the money finally trickles down, even when a school is built in a poor neighborhood, for instance, the poor are still deprived Picture Quote #1

There is the fundamental paradox of the welfare state: that it is not built for the desperate, but for those who are already capable of helping themselves Picture Quote #1

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Life is lived in common, but not in community (Michael Harrington Quotes) Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty (Michael Harrington Quotes) If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. (Michael Harrington Quotes) Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. (Michael Harrington Quotes) Today is always partly tomorrow and can only be understood in movement, futuristically, speculatively (Michael Harrington Quotes) One cannot raise the bottom of a society without benefiting everyone above (Michael Harrington Quotes) It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered (Michael Harrington Quotes) People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society (Michael Harrington Quotes) That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen (Michael Harrington Quotes) Capitalism is moving toward its end massively, imperceptibly, like a glacier. Its decadence is cold, not hot (Michael Harrington Quotes) Once man understands that he is caught up in a blind energy, he transcends it. There is light in the darkness (Michael Harrington Quotes) With man more and more ubiquitous, with nature transformed from a mysterious given into a product of the human will, divinity is in crisis (Michael Harrington Quotes) The various aspects of decadence cannot be turned into functions of the economy and neither can they be grasped without relating them to this dynamic part of contemporary life (Michael Harrington Quotes) Because the slums are no longer centers of powerful political organizations, the politicians need not really care about their inhabitants (Michael Harrington Quotes) Even when the money finally trickles down, even when a school is built in a poor neighborhood, for instance, the poor are still deprived (Michael Harrington Quotes) There is the fundamental paradox of the welfare state: that it is not built for the desperate, but for those who are already capable of helping themselves (Michael Harrington Quotes)