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The general influence they exert upon society is even worse than that of the downright criminal—for where the criminal is one they number thousands.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Editor's note · Context
In this statement, Woodhull critiques the detrimental influence of unproductive members of society, suggesting they pose a greater threat than individual criminals.
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Steam and water have relieved muscle of nearly all its most laborious occupations and increased the capacity of production a thousand fold.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
The tendencies of government from earliest historic time have persistently been to universal sway.