Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Coalitions are but the unjust subjection of one people to another.

The preposterous distinctions of rank, which render civilization a curse, by dividing the world between voluptuous tyrants and cunning envious dependents, corrupt, almost equally, every class of people, because respectability is not attached to the discharge of the relative duties of life, but to the station…

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.