{"quotes":[{"text":"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","corporate-greed","corporations","corrupt","corruption","democracy","facism","government","greed","leadership","multinational-corporations","plutocracy","profit","profit-driven","system"],"id":18477,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corruption","greed","greedy","health","human-life","plutocracy","population","powerful","rich","security","social-system","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":35180,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","capitalism","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","capitalists","censorship","corporate-gain","corrupt","corruption","defunct","democracy","democratic","dysfunctional","empire","government","government-corruption","greed","greed-corruption","greedy","humanity","hypocrisy","interests","justice","leadership","money","nation","not-working","people","plutocracy","policies","profit","profit-drive","profitability","profits","rulership","social-system","social-systems","society","system","truth"],"id":37848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The most insidious of our country, the greediest and highest rung of our socioeconomic ladder, line their pockets with misappropriated funds as military personnel and hordes of civilians are maimed or killed. It’s not their children out there, blinded by manufactured patriotism or lured into the service with the promise of economic stability, all with the sanctimonious blessings of misguided public consent by way of corporate, state-sponsored media. It won’t be their children who are terrorized by Wahabbist insurgents tearing through city blocks and rural areas as only an ever-devouring plague could. It won’t be any of their loved ones watching thousands of years of civilization unraveling like an old sweater as each thread of wool is lit on fire or stolen to sell on the black market for greedy consumers with a fetish for hijacked Mesopotamian artifacts.","author":"M.B. Dallocchio","tags":["colonialism","corruption","exploitation","government","military","oligarchy","plutocracy","trauma","war"],"id":46195,"author_id":"M.B.+Dallocchio"},{"text":"I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["bush-administration","dick-cheney","loyalty","plutocracy","u-s-politics","vendetta"],"id":50462,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"},{"text":"There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["democracy","government","oligarchy","plutocracy"],"id":67699,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"...Vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["capitalism","plutocracy"],"id":76048,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["american-culture","aux-armes-citoyens","class-warfare","liberalism","plutocracy","politics","right-wing-oppression","right-wing-thuggery"],"id":159861,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["democracy","oligarchy","plutocracy","ruling-class"],"id":198527,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"},{"text":"Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["blood","capitalism","capitalismo","capitalismo-salvaje","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","civilization","collapse","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corrupt","corruption","demise","end","gain","greed","greedy","health","human-life","life","money","plutocracy","population","powerful","profit","profits","rich","ruin","security","social-system","system","wealth","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":212874,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}