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"Everyone has an equal right to inequality."
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"Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any discussion: you are rich and I am poor."
"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
"I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you."
"A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns."
"The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living."
"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
"Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for."
"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."
"The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby."
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"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."
"Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors."
"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."
"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."
"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."
"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."
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