Robert Kuttner (1943) American journalist
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
“Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.”
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“Frosting
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Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
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“[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.”
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"Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"; The Public Advertiser (September 11, 1773).
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The Moscoviad
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Greg Mortenson (1957) American mountaineer and humanitarian
Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
Context: The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.