"There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary."

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People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

— Rudolf Rocker