Orion

“The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery.”
― Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

“The bourgeoisie, in truth, is bound to fear the stupidity of the masses so long as they remain conservative, and the insight of the masses as soon as they become revolutionary.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

“If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.”
― Frederick the Great