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[–]Orangutan 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.”

― Chris Hedges

[–]Captzapheart 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

wow Orangutan, killer quotes. You've covered almost all bases, nice work.

[–]Orangutan 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Football, beer, and above all gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult." -- George Orwell (1984)

[–]happysmash27 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Does it have to be something from today? What if it happened in the past?

[–]Vigte[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As long as it applies to the present world and is still going on - go for it, I won't hold you back!

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I'm already sick of this shit.

[–]Orangutan 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?" ~ Charles Bukowski, Factotum, 1975

“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don’t want, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like.” ― Emile Gauvreau

"We have stood up for non-violence with all of our hearts, and those who will make this peaceful revolution impossible, will make a violent revolution inevitable" - Martin Luther King Jr. (evidence of revision - part 6 - 29min)