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“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.”

Moments Character Political Politics Party Struggle Terrible Cost Succeed Majority Various Deceit Expenses Political Parties Cunning Supremacy Shady Trickery

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.”

Wisdom Government Political Politics Economy Citizens Taxes Ties Liberalism Expenses Strongest Cheerfulness Political Systems Homestead Act

Author:Andrew Johnson

“The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.”

Giving Persons Ends States Use Political Interest Influence Economic Benefits Motive Expenses Political Influence

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.”

Thinking Feels Doe States Political Rooms Powerful Principles Rights Limits Authority Stronger Majority Liberalism Spite Expenses Political Rights

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.”

Has Beens Earth Political Humanity Wealth Fate Capitalism Concerned Crisis Fortune Expenses Capitalist Contemplating Ecology Implications Ecological Ecological Crisis

Book:Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Source: Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

“In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.”

Government Political Opportunity Process Support Taxes Gains Spending Enterprise Expenses Nurture Deficit Accumulation Subsidies Tax System Deficit Spending

Author:Michael Parenti