Nancy Huntting

“We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there.”
― Eli Siegel

“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.”
― Eli Siegel, Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth. There is no other source, except land, the raw material….Every bit of capital that exists was made by labor, just as everything that is consumed is.”
― Eli Siegel, Goodbye Profit System: Update

“When truth is divided, errors multiply.”
― Eli Siegel