The truth is that, in the words of Noam Chomsky, "wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for material gain, and so on. . . Such qualities might be just the valuable ones for a war of all against all." [For Reasons of State, pp. 139-140]
For Reasons of State, Fontana/Collins, Suffolk, 1973.
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secI1.html
But the quote is not on those pages in the 1973 Vintage edition...which I have in front of me.
:-)
Chip
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> thanks.
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> "Instead of the comforting rationale that merit breeds
> success and the successful have merit, a more rational
> approach would be to speculate that in our society wealth and
> power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning,
> avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion,
> subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for
> material gain" Noam Chomsky
>
> That's how the quote was put on the list. I do not know the source.
>
> B
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