“With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution”
George Bernard Shaw
“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”
Sydney J. Harris
“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.”
William Irwin Thompson
“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.”
Albert Einstein