If You Are Neutral In Situations Of Injustice, You Have Chosen The Side Of The Oppressor

When young men are sent to war, I honour them for it, but I do not honour the politicians whose vanity and stupidity made it necessary.
( Len Firswood )

Let Me Remind You What Fascism Is.
Once more let me remind you what fascism is.
It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt.
It may even wear a dress shirt.
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
( Tommy Douglas )

To Understand A Society, Look At The Drugs It Uses.
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses.
And what can this tell you about American culture?
Well, look at the drugs we use.
Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilisation tolerates.
Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energise you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
( Bill Hicks )

The Assets Belonging To The People Of Britain Sold Off.
The British people built the post office with their taxes over the years.
The British people built the hospitals system since the end of the war, for decades with their blood, sweat and tears.
They built the education system.
They built the rail system, they built the transportation system with all their jobs and their tax money.
And now, all those cash generating assets are being transferred to private enterprise.
( Max Keiser )

The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow. benefitting the poor.
But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger.
Nothing ever comes out for the poor.
( Pope Francis )

Human Beings Are Treated As A Commodity.
We live in a system where human beings are treated as a commodity with a monetary value.
We have allowed corporations to claim ownership over our common resources, selling back to us what was naturally ours to begin with.
Further more, we are forced into working for these corporations to obtain the promissory notes of another corporation to be able to buy back what should be free to all.
If we were more honest with ourselves we would call this what it really is.
Slavery.
( Rose Winfold )

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
( Desmond Tutu )

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.
( Louis Brandeis )

A Version Of History That Hides Its Crimes.
The version of history we were taught in school was heavily revised to favour our own nation’s agenda while hiding its crimes.
And in doing so fostered an unrealistic sense of false patriotism used to manufacture our allegiance to a corporate entity masquerading as our government.
( Fred O. Wilson )

Governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy.
Their own population.
( Noam Chomsky )

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
( Johannes Kepler )

Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
( Henry Kissenger )

Buying Votes With Other People’s Money.
The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood.
Their principal, and indeed their sole object, is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith.
They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people’s money.
( H.L. Mencken )

If ‘Plan A’ didn’t work.
The alphabet has twenty-five more letters.
( Rose Winfold )

We are told that folk being paid benefits are not contributing to society.
But it seems they are contributing the most.
Their money doesn’t go into offshore accounts or investments in shares.
It goes straight back into the economy because they can’t afford to save it.
Their money goes on food and paying the bills.
Even if some of them spend it on drink and cigarettes.
They would still be paying more taxes than many of the multi-national businesses.
( Wilfred Soon )

When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear 27 months.
‘He’s two’ will do just fine.
He’s not a cheese.
( George Carlin )

We Are All Stardust.
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.
And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand.
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.
You are all stardust.
( Lawrence M. Krauss )

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
( Nelson Mandela )

To lead the people, walk behind them.
( Laozi )

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiation.
( Golda Meir )

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
( John F. Kennedy )

Man is the most insane species.
He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.
Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
( Hubert Reeves )

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
( Andrew Carnegie )

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit.
And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
( Laozi )

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others.
It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
( Mwai Kibaki )

The Working Class Are The Backbone Of Our Country.
They fought two world wars and worked in our factories, and suddenly, when there were no more world wars and precious few factories, they were largely surplus to requirements.
But the working class are still capable of competing with the toffs and the privileged.
Because we have a free, meaningful education in this country without our parents having to pay for it.
( Rose Winfold )

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things.
He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
( Ronald Reagan )

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.
( Nelson Mandela )

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
( Mahatma Gandhi )