“Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.” WorldAbleLawEvilTaxesCourtDeedsViolentAdministrationCollectionsDoersLaw CourtsEvil Doers Book:Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
“Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantPayTaxesLateRaisedCollectionsScreamPanicGarbageUnreasonable Author:Michael Schur
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections” RunningAmericaFormLeaderEconomyPeriodsTaxesBasesIronyCollectionsSovietSmoothPhilanthropySplendidBreakdownFranticEvasionTax Evasion Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties
“I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantProblemGovernmentTodayActionSchoolRememberIndividualDecisionFocusRightsInformationTaxesResourcesPoliceInstitutionsCourtPrisonScalesTendenciesDepartmentCollectionsTransHuman ResourcesUnimaginableProsecutorPolice Department Author:Chelsea Manning