William Morris

20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• Competition is war, which at best pursues one’s own advantage at the cost of someone else’s loss (opens korrents.com)

  “War or competition, whichever you please to call it, means at the best pursuing your own advantage at the cost of some one else’s loss, and in the process of it you must not be sparing of destruction even of your own…”

  around 1888

• Every civilized country has, or could have, plenty for all, and sharing existing wealth fairly would make everyone comparatively comfortable (opens korrents.com)

  “For what I want you to understand is this: that in every civilized country at least there is plenty for all—is, or at any rate might be. Even with labour so misdirected as it is at present, an equitable distribution of…”

  around 1888

• Under the present system labour-saving machines have not cut any worker’s hours (opens korrents.com)

  “So I say that, in spite of our inventions, no worker works under the present system an hour the less on account of those labour-saving machines, so-called.”

  around 1888