“You know what’s truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they’re all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it’s shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.” — Bruce Sterling …

“Capitalism is the problem – and the joblessness, homelessness, insecurity, and austerity it now imposes everywhere are the costs we bear. …We …need to reorganise our producing units differently, to go beyond a capitalist economic system that no longer serves our needs.” — Richard Wolff …

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country better than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen driven to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” — H.L. Mencken …

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken …

“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.” — B. R. Ambedkar

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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” — Robert Frost

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“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt …

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” — Victor Hugo …

“We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.” — Ricardo Flores Magon
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“The desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all.” — Eve Ensler …