George V Quotes

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

There was no pity take of the poor people, who wrought never no manner of treason, yet they bought it dearer than the great personages, such as had done the evil and trespass

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

The day of reckoning came, and that day was the Terror. The heirs of those who toiled made their account with the heirs of those who played.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

the Distress of our oppressed Country, which now unjustly feels the baneful Effects of arbitrary Power.

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren’t started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better—and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.