Glenn Murray Quotes

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me and yet assure myself and others that I'm sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all possible means --- except by getting off his back.

No man ever ruled other men for their own good.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.