Anon
Why do we
‘hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain lose
That steals the common from the goose’?

Addison Joseph
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

De Maistre Joseph
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. 

Constant Benjamin
Le but des anciens était le partage  du pouvoir social entre tous les citoyens d’une même patrie: c’était là ce qu’ils nommaient liberté. Le but des modernes est la sécurité dans les jouissances privées; et ils nomment liberté les garanties accordées par les institutions à ces jouissances.

Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it.  Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.  

Lewis Michael New York Times Nov 1995
The speed with which wealth is now amassed gives it a magical, rabbit-from-the-hat quality.
The rich man has performed a wonderful trick. We applaud him so loudly he wants to do it again.

Lao-tzu
The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.

Smith L. P. The New Yorker April 1997
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like saying that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Wallis Jim
There’s no more central theme in the Bible than the immorality of inequality.
Jesus speaks more about the gap between rich and poor than he does about heaven and hell.  

Wolff Edward
We’re becoming an oligarchic society, with an extreme concentration of wealth.
This concentration of wealth is protected through a political process that’s making it difficult for anyone but the monied class to have a voice.

Theodore Forstmann
In a state-run society the government promises you security.  But it’s a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. 
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. 


Raymond Chandler
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
Demarest Lloyd Henry

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you’re locked up. 

In a totalitarian system, you aren’t allowed to talk back to the government; in the corporate system, you can’t talk back to the sponsor.

Brennan William J., 1982
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights.  Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. 

Tutu Bishop Desmond
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master.  I want the full menu of rights. 

Marx Karl
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.