“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
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Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow”
Che Guevara
1 quote“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
Alan Moore
1 quote“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
Chinua Achebe
1 quote“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become un...”
Fidel Castro
1 quote“The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”
Noam Chomsky
1 quote“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear...”
Alan Watts
1 quote“It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.”
St. Francis of Assisi
1 quote“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1 quote“Dissents speak to a future age.”
Ambrose Bierce
1 quote“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of r...”
Imran Khan
1 quote“When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.”