"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." -Susan B. Anthony
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Winston Churchill
"They {the corporations} are counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to stand at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket." -Bill Moyers
"I do not believe the word "person" in the 14th Amendment includes corporations."
-Hugo Black Supreme Court Justice 1938
"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
-Alex Carey
"There's something that stinks about this. It's fundamentally undemocratic. It's awfully close to corruption. There's something unhealthy about this. If this group can arbitrarily rule that a billionaire who gets 20 million votes and qualifies for $30 million in election funds can't participate then God help the rest of us." -Jesse Jackson after Perot was excluded from the 1996 presidential debates
"Our country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies. The reason: excessive concentration of power and wealth in a few hands. Instead of government of, by, and for the people, we have a government of the Exxons, by the General Motors, and for the DuPonts. Such concentration serves the interests of the few over the many. History has taught us the perils of this degree of concentrated power and wealth. This concentrated power in the service of greed, together with short-term thinking, prevents our country from foreseeing and forestalling looming problems on the horizon."
-Ralph Nader
Religion
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
-Steven Weinberg
"Religious men are and must be heretics now— for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand— or think of God but with a prearranged idea."
-Florence Nightingale
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means”
-George Bernard Shaw
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
-Sir Francis Burton
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction."
-Blaise Pascal
"The Institutional Church has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do."
-Will Durant
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian."
-Mahatma Ghandi
"Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?" -Katherine Whitehorn