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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.
George Orwell1903–1950“Why I Write”, Gangrel (Summer 1946)
- Writing
It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.
George C. Marshall1880–1959The Marshall Plan Speech (1947)
- Economics
- War & Peace
When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?
Cicero107–43 BCThe First Oration Against Catiline (63 BC)
- Anger
Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives.
Cicero107–43 BCThe First Oration Against Catiline (63 BC)
- Morality
If you’re tired of arguing with strangers on the internet, try to talk with one in real life. If something needs fixing, lace up your shoes and do some organizing. If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures, and run for office yourself.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Barack Obama’s Farewell Address (2017)
- Democracy
- Responsibility
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- History
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Comedy
You have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIIn context
- Work
There is no wilderness where I can hide from these things, there is no haven where I can escape them; though I travel to the ends of the earth, I find the same accursed system⁠—I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Economics
- Money
The working-man was to fix his hopes upon a future life, while his pockets were picked in this one; he was brought up to frugality, humility, obedience⁠—in short to all the pseudo-virtues of capitalism.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXXIIn context
- Economics
- Religion
The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter IIn context
- Economics
- Work
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter VIIIIn context
A spectre is haunting Europe⁠—the spectre of Communism.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- History