Woody Guthrie Quotes
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
Guthrie, Woody. "Pretty Boy Floyd." American Folksong, Moses Asch, 1947.
Furgeson was running, with his wife as proxy, against the incumbent Texas governor who proudly announced that the state auditor had reported the state's books and budget were in balance.
There were few if any consumer protection laws in those days and many wealthy aristocrats made their money by taking advantage of the poor. They were the landowners, bankers, financiers and often the industrialists. Shaw was a sarcastic social critic and this is a typical line he gave his upper class characters. Today, we have more controls on business and finance, and many wealthy business people have gotten that way by providing great value to the consumers and being honest. However, we still have large numbers of wealthy members of society who do make their money from the poor and middle class by unethical and often illegal means. In the aftermath of the Meltdown of 2008. hundreds of thousands of the homes of the working poor and middle class were foreclosed by the major banks forging the legal documentation for the foreclusures. Millions of consumer contracts are issued that even a PhD cannot understand the terms of without special legal and financial training. There is even a legal definition of a salesperson lying to make a sale which is so commonplace that our law excuses it and calls it "puffing". However, there has been over time, improvement over Shaw's era.
Here is another example of “the good old days” phenomenon. Similar complaints are made in most generations about most vices.
Odo of Chatillon-Sur-Marne. The Pope was addressing officials of Christian counties throughout Europe. Crime control then seems to have been a hot political issue as it is today.
In the quoted passage, it describes Diogenes as observing a thief being arrested in one of the religious temples by the officials of the temple. He had pilfered one of the temple treasures. Not unlike modern times, most religious organizations raised money be getting donations from the public. Some of the means of many of the religious groups are and have been of dubious morality and if used in commerce would generally be considered fraud. This quotation shows that this is not a new phenomenon nor was it limited to monotheistic religions.
He was addressing the technique of the Special Prosecutor who had been appointed to investigate the relationship between the Donald Trump presidentical campaign and the Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter, who is one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His music, including songs such as "This Land Is Your Land", has inspired several generations both politically and musically.
