Diane Call

“the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”
― Ronald Wright

“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds,
insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a
real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who
lost this game; now it is the planet.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress