Matthias

“Oft begehen Menschen Fehler, tun Dinge, die sie bereuen, oder schlechte Dinge, weil sie etwas Gutes damit bezwecken möchten. Das Leben ist komplizierter als Gut und Böse.”
― Ava Reed

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
― James Connolly

“Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“In sum, the myth of a self-reliant, free-market, trickle-down economy is just that, a myth. In almost every enterprise, government provides business with supports, protections, and opportunities for private gain at public expense.”
― Michael Parenti, Against Empire