Rajiv Chopra

“And the truth is that I truly didn’t think of them as human beings. “They’re not human beings, they’re kulak trash!” – that’s what I heard again and again, that’s what everyone kept repeating. And when I think about it all now, I wonder who first talked about kulak trash. Lenin? Was it really Lenin? How the kulaks suffered. In order to kill them, it was necessary to declare that kulaks are not human beings. Just as the Germans said that Yids are not human beings. That’s what Lenin and Stalin said too: The kulaks are not human beings. But that’s a lie. They are people. They are human beings. I can see now that we are all human beings.60”
― Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. —Justice Louis Brandeis”
― Jonathan Tepper, The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

“Long gone are the days when Henry Ford could double his workers' wages and do so happily. As Ford explained, “Unless industry can keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of customers.” Ford understood that the economy was not a zero sum game between himself and his workers.32 During the Great Depression, the British”
― Jonathan Tepper, The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

“Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is apparent. —Leto II (The Tyrant)”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune