John Locke Quotes

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

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.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

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

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.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

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.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

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.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.