Innocence And Guilt Can Be Bought And Sold If You Are Part Of The Corrupt, Wealthy Elite

A rotten society is when the rich and the powerful use their influence to protect their own.
( Daily Mirror )

Before the election David Cameron was asked if he would cut child tax credit.
He looked David Dimbleby in the eye and said, “No”.
What a lie.
Just a few weeks later he announced £4.5billion cuts from tax credits.
( Yvette Cooper, 08.08.2015 )

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the republic.
( Theodore Roosevelt )

Here is my simple economic plan.
Raise taxes on the 1%.
( Johnny Depp )

I don’t remember a single school shooting when I was a kid.
What I do remember is our teacher having us begin the day reciting the pledge of allegiance, reading from the bible and praying.
We also had the Ten Commandments on the wall.
Maybe getting rid of those things wasn’t such a good idea after all.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
( Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970 )

Politics?
Poli, a Latin word meaning many.
And tics meaning blood-sucking creatures.
( Robin Williams, 1951-2014 )

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system.
For if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
( Henry Ford, 1863-1947 )

If we cannot control billionaires power to buy elections, the people elected to office will be responsive to the needs of the rich and powerful, rather than the needs of everyone else.
( Bernie Sanders )

When you start reading a bit more, about the amount of money being spent on ridiculous shit while there are food banks and families in poverty, it just becomes a joke.
( Kevin Bridges )

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
( H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956 )

Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children.
There is no such thing as being neutral.
We must either help or hinder.
( Robert Tressell )

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society.
And any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
( Edmund Burke )

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilisation is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
( Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973 )

The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.
( Robert Tressell )

Innocence and guilt can be bought and sold if you are part of the corrupt, wealthy, powerful elite.
( Len Firswood )

Democracy is the means by which those who adore authority and crave security of servitude can use their superior numbers to enslave those who wish to be free.

A God or a Creator may exist, but religion is simply a tool invented by the powerful to control the weak-minded, the fearful, and the stupid.
( Rose Winfold )

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.
( Thomas Sowell )

If a believer demands that you, as a non-believer, observe his beliefs.
He is not asking you for your respect, but for your submission.

America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
( Abraham Lincoln )

What do you mean, I can’t force people to follow my religion?
Stop oppressing me!

The Fascists of the future will be called anti-Fascists.
( Winston Churchill )

Don’t confuse the truth with the opinion of the majority.

Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.
( Robert LeFevre, 1911-1986 )

Be warned.
The argument you use today to restrict the rights of others, will be used tomorrow to restrict your rights as well.

It’s perfectly okay to disagree with both the major political parties.
It’s called thinking for yourself.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
( Denis Diderot, 1713-1784 )

There is something quite obscene about pin-striped city slickers banding together to make sure that the fat cats in their midst get even fatter by sinking their greedy snouts as deeply as possible into the trough.
( Rose Winfold )

Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.
( Aneurin Bevan )

It’s not a handout.
It’s not welfare.
It’s money from the government from a fund you have paid into.
For when times are hard.
And it belongs to you.

The majority work hard and live in poverty in order that the minority may live in luxury without working at all, and as the majority are mostly fools, they not only agree to pass their lives in incessant slavery and want, in order to pay this rent to those who own the country, but they say it is quite right that they should have to do so, and are very grateful to the little minority for allowing them to remain in the country at all.
( Robert Tressell )

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
( Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister )

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions.
In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.
( Adolf Hitler )

If we bring up religion, we will have differences, we will have arguments, we will never be able to get together.
But if we keep our religion at home, keep our religion in the closet, keep our religion between ourself and our God.
And when we come out here we have a fight that’s common to all of us, against an enemy who is common to all of us.
( Malcolm X )

I’m not an idiot.
I’m not stupid.
In fact, I’m quite intelligent.
And, I’m a nice person.
You’re just pissed off because I can see through all your bull-shit and lies.
( Rose Winfold )

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can’t take care of the elderly and the children?
( Bernie Sanders )

It is intolerable and indecent for a society to produce by over-working and under-paying human beings.
( James Mitchell )

We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to over-throw the Constitution, but to over-throw men who pervert the Constitution.
( Abraham Lincoln )

Never let the influences of the modern world affect your morals or who you are.
( Rose Winfold )

People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance.
They live, they love, and they die.
And that matters.
That matters.
That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.
( Elizabeth Warren )

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.
She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.
This is the tradition of native women.
( Chief Dan George )

Jesus said: “Lay not up for yourselves treasure upon earth”, “Love not the world nor the things of the world”, “Woe unto you that are rich. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven”.
Yet all these self-styled ‘Followers’ of Christ made the accumulation of money the principal business of their lives.
( Robert Tressell )