Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land;… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out,… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
