The Grand Thieves Are Running The Country

They Have Monopolised Everything That Is Possible To Monopolise.

Poverty is not caused by men and women getting married.
It’s not caused by machinery.
It’s not caused by ‘over-production’.
It’s not caused by drink or laziness, and it’s not caused by ‘over-population’.
It’s caused by Private Monopoly.
That is the present system.

They have monopolised everything that it is possible to monopolise.
They have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth.
The only reason they have not monopolised the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it.
If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe.
( Robert Tressell )

We Are Led By Men Who Produce Nothing.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion..
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing.
When you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours.
When you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
( Ayn Rand )

Respect.
I was raised to treat people exactly how I would expect to be treated.
I was taught to say please and thank you.
I was taught to respect my elders, and say, ‘yes sir’ and ‘no sir’.
I was taught to say, ‘excuse me’, and to hold the door open for the person behind me.
I was taught to let another person have my seat if they needed it.
I was taught to knock before I open a door, and say hello when I entered a room.
I was taught to be kind and honest, and to help others if I could.
( Len Firswood )

The Grand Thieves Are Running The Country.

You are saying our problem is civil disobedience, but that is not our problem.
Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.
Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty.
Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country.
That’s our problem.
( Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 )

Impossible To Live Without Breaking Laws.

There’s no way to rule innocent men.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens?
What’s there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted, and you create a nation of law-breakers, and then you cash in on guilt.
( Ayn Rand )

The Appearance Of A Democracy.
The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping.
It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.
( Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963 )

Women And Girls Have Been Abandoned.

No one is suffering under the doctrine of Islam more than Muslims are, particularly Muslim women.
Those who object to any attack upon the religion of Islam as racist or as a symptom of Islamophobia display a nauseating insensitivity to the subjugation of women throughout the Muslim world.
At this moment, millions of women and girls have been abandoned to illiteracy, forced marriage, and lives of slavery and abuse under the guise of multiculturalism and religious sensitivity.
This is a crime to which every apologist for Islam is now an accomplice.
( Sam Harris )

Humans Are All One People.

Researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people.
The colour of our ancestor’s skin and ultimately my skin and your skin is a consequence of ultra-violet light, of latitude and climate.
Despite our recent sad conflicts here in the U.S., there really is no such thing, scientifically, as race.
We are one species.
Each of us is much more alike than we are different.
We all came from Africa.
We are all made of the same star dust.
We are all going to live and die on the same planet – a pale blue dot in the vastness of space.
We have to work together.
( Bill Nye )