When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When .4k you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them but protect them against you -When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, and traitors are not victims but accomplices.
It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging, we separate. Through understanding, we grow.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
A great revolution of character in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society, and further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
In a society that has you counting money, pounds, calories and steps, be a rebel and count your blessings instead.
Control oil and you control nations,
control food and you control people.
