Camps Quote by Jacques Pierre Brissot

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive…

— Aldous Huxley

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no…

— Henry David Thoreau

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work…

— Susan B. Anthony

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal;…

— E. F. Schumacher

These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and…

— Howard Zinn

“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with corpses, although…

— Élisée Reclus

The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain…

— John Adams

“Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be…

— Jiro Shirasu

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“There are two extremes to be avoided, one is the disposition of the rich to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the poor. .…

— George Q. Cannon