Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

The goat which has many owners will be left to die in the sun.

The first problem is too many workers. The second problem is having fools and crooks as managers.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

It is well known that the man, whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps, and for many years past has kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves. Her name is SALLY.

The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?

Children shouldn't have to suffer for any reason.

If people find out something bothers you then they're going to capitalize on it.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing.

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.