Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organisation cannot live a full-blooded life
— Mickhail Gorbachov
None ought to be lords or landlords over another, but the earth is free for every son and daughter of mankind to live free upon.
— Gerrard Winstanley
Riots are the language of the unheard
— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions?...I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself
— King George V
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
— Aristotle
..militarism...is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail
— Helen Keller
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership
— Neil Kinnock
The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders
— William Henry Vanderbilt
The purpose of propaganda...is to convince the masses, whose slowness of understanding needs to be given time in order that they may absorb information; and only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd
— Adolf Hitler
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform
— Mark Twain
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
— Eleanor Roosevelt
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career
— Albert Einstein
The bigger the lie, the more likely it is to be believed
— Adolf Hitler
I wonder if we could contrive...some magnificent myth that would in itself carry conviction to our whole community
— Plato
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth