“Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.”

—  Charles A. Reich , book The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IX : The New Generation, p. 253

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