There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. —Judith Martin More about this quote Tags: politics USA middle class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him that if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. —Mary "Mother" Jones More about this quote Tags: politics economics USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: politics knowledge certainty leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, “That person I see is a savage monster”; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the ceo of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving twenty hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: politics power economics corporations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All the laws made for the betterment of workers’ lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened, wages go up, conditions are better — only if the workers protest. —Mary Heaton Vorse More about this quote Tags: politics progress workers' rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is it altogether a Utopian dream that once in history a ruling class might be willing to make the great surrender and permit social change to come about without hatred, turmoil, and waste of human life? —Upton Sinclair More about this quote Tags: politics power change turmoil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. —William Ralph Inge More about this quote Tags: politics history nations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: politics death patriotism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. —Edward R. Murrow More about this quote Tags: politics television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: politics crime leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world. —Michelle Alexander More about this quote Tags: justice politics crime USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. —Margaret Thatcher More about this quote Tags: politics patience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: politics humor democracy anger blame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. —Horace Mann More about this quote Tags: politics opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” But I think the guns help. Just standing there saying, “Bang!” doesn’t really hurt anybody. —Eddie Izzard More about this quote Tags: politics humor guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email