“We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought or sold, the bread and circuses. The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom, the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.”
— Henry Adams
