A second page of Quotes
"the earth is not dying it is being killed and those who are killing it have names and addreses"
"capitalism is based on a constant process of alienated consumption, as workers try to find the happiness associated within productive,creative,self managed activity in a place where it doesnt exist-on the shop shelves"
"People who are regimented all there lives , handed to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beggining and the nursing home in the end , are habituated to heirarchy and enslaved.Thier aptitude for autonomy is totally atrophied"
"Weve all been put to sleep,put to sleep to a system a system that continues to perpetrate ignorance against our spirit and one that wants us not to act"
"Voting is slapping a preservation order on corruption,inequality and is an excuse used to stop people organizing their own alternative"
"weve got to understand, again who we are, not those chosen to fuel systems but individuals who have the knowledge to criticize,analyze and attack injustice when it becomes prevalent"
"man did not enter into society to become worse off than before, nor to have fewer rights than before, but to have those rights better secured"
"Education as it stands today is merely concerned with sorting and grading children for there future roles in social heirarchy.It ensures that they adopt an acceptance of the need for compition and authority"
"Of the esscence of goverment~it is a thing apart,developing its own interest at the expense of what opposes it;all attempts to make it anything else will fail"
"dysfunction is a function"
"A society that values its privalages over its principles soon loses both"
"morals are simply blind obediance to words of command"
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything"
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think"
"The death of democracy will be a slow desention from apathy , indiffrence and undernourishment"
"Few rich men own there propety, there propety owns them"
"The goverment is best which governs least"
"Where all men think alike no one thinks very much"
"a man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights"
"from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs"
"It may be our role on this planet is not to worship a god but to create one"
"youre either part of the solution or your part of the problem"
"great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
"The plain fact is that we are not starving people,not delibratley in the sense that we want them to die,but willfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconveniance"
"We must not think of the things that we could do with but only of the things that we cant do without"
"Shopping is more American than thinking"
"There is enough on this earth for everybodys need but not for everybodys greed"
"Any relation that does exist between happiness and income is relative rather than absolute.The happiness that people derive from consumption is more likely based on wether they consume more than their neighbours or more than they did in the past"
"Live simply so that all may simply live"
"The important thing is not to stop questioning"
"Unthinking respect for authority is the great enemy of truth"
"when u make your peace with authority u become authority"
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"
"U have succeded in life when all u really want is what u need"
"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,sell your things and keep your thoughts"
"He who buys what he does not need steals from himself"
"The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word FUCK"
"If voting changed anything they would make it illegal"
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money"
"Affluence creates poverty"
"Man is rich or poor according to what he is not according to what he has"
"If there is anything a nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it is another nonconformist who doesnt conform to the prevailing standards of non conformity"
"The conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is, the search for superior moral justification for selfishness"