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“No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.”

People Enough Government Guy Causes Common Behinds Greater Rights Mass Wake Up Genuine Waking Counting Good Guy Changes In Society

Author:James Morcan

“Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Government Poor Wise Mets Mass Anarchy Peasants Riot Unrest Provoked

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.”

“Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.”

People Humans States Government Nations Seeing Blood Citizens Mass Tyrants Helpless Components Mindless Faceless

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.”

Ifs World Needs Government Support Modern Mass Discovery Changing The World New Things

Author:Bernard Crick

“I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.”

Two Government Law Nations Enjoy Moral Opinion Class Greater Degrees Mass Convinced Former Native Latter Divided Sheep Native American Public Opinion Governing Pretence

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.”

Ifs Men Done Facts Government Wealth Poor Rich Honest Mass Worthwhile Distribution Doubted Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Clarence Darrow

“all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.”

Government Form Spirit Activity Mass Weight Pretense Free Spirit

Author:Emma Goldman

“How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.”

Government Political Party Poverty Mass Illusion Consequence Program Responsible Welfare Convince Someday Political Parties Notorious Alleviate

Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.”

World Government Today Violence Mass Committed Instance Borders Principal World Today

Author:Susan Sontag