“The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.” DoeDiesRevolutionMass Book:Oppression and Liberty Source: Oppression and Liberty
“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.” PeopleBelieveHas BeensFactsDreamHandsActionAmericaFacesLyingDesireDiesPassionNationsVoiceBornDestinyDemocracyColdDespairMassIdealsDepthDrivenBitterBurningFrustrationApathyCynicismAmerican DreamLackingParticipationHopelessnessParalysisForsakenBurning Passion Author:Saul Alinsky
“Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” BigsLyingDiesFallNationsMassVictimAlsBroads Author:Adolf Hitler
“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.” PeopleThinkingMindBookCountryBodyFormDiesNationsPovertyAtheismProduceIgnoranceMassEuropeCourtPressesPositive AtheismOppressionRedemptionMinistersLengthCopiesSuperstitionsMind And BodyVirginiaAmbassadorsResidentsFreedom Of Religion Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!” WorldWantTwoDiesFallWalksExistenceRocksMassEternityDeeperForestsDustComparisonMortalityFleetingTombsMarbleDiggingWanting To DieCrumbling Author:Denis Diderot