Mark Sun

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle