“Capitalism is entirely without precedent, in that it is a religion which offers not the reform of existence but its complete destruction. It is the expansion of despair, until despair becomes a religious state of the world in the hope that this will lead to salvation.“ (1/2) -Walter Benjamin

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. When the Supreme Experience supervenes, everyone's service is revealed as one's own service. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one's own Self in every one of them."

“The people that built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky” -Nina Simone

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” -Fred Rogers

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky Office in a Small City (Hopper)

“Behind the ostensible gov’t sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance & acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible gov’t, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today” -T.R.

“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, ‘Main Street, not Wall Street,’ but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.” -Žižek

“How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?” -Maximilien Robespierre The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault)

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” -Oscar Wilde On the Seashore (Knöchel)

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -Franklin D. Roosevelt The Kansas City Spirit (Rockwell)

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free & tear off every yoke?” -Isaiah 58:6 Christ in the Desert (Kramskoi)

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes” -Ernest Hemingway

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” -Benito Mussolini

“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia” -Ptolemy Eve(Hawksley)

“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts & moves, & this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity.“ -Leo Tolstoy Apple Harvest (Pissarro)

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” -Baruch Spinoza Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (Mondrian)

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”” -Fred Rogers

“Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.” -Peter Kropotkin Les Batteurs de Pieux (Luce)

“One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.” -Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky (West)

“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.” -Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Crossing the Alps (David)

"It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions." -Franklin D. Roosevelt City Life (Arnautoff)

"What labor everywhere wants, what it ought to have, & will someday demand & receive, is an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. As the laborer becomes more intelligent he will develop what capital he already possesses—that is the power to organize & combine for its own protection." -Douglass

“Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” -Galatians 6:2 The Raising of Lazarus (Guercino)

“Now you look into the eyes of another being, and you see another being just like you looking back at you. Are you in there? Far out! I’m in here. How did you get into that one? And what you see at that moment is another awareness just like you, but packaged differently.” -Ram Dass

“Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing.” -Isaiah 40:17 Jesus Carries His Cross (Akhriev)

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” -Thomas Paine

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!” (1/3) Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Friedrich)

“The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light” -Bell Hooks

“From the nature of man, we may be sure that those who have power in their hands...will always, when they can...increase it” -George Mason

[If a majority were to control all branches of the government] “debts would be abolished first, taxes laid heavy on the rich and not at all on the others, and at last, a downright equal vision of everything would be demanded and voted.” -John Adams

“We cannot know God unless we love each other and to love him we must know each other. We know him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more.“

“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance” -Thomas Paine Coronation of Napoleon and Joséphine (David)

“Indulge your passion for science…but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society. Be a philosopher; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” -David Hume

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau Man with a Hoe (Millet)

“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” -Mathew 7:12 Golden Rule (Rockwell)

"act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law.” -Immanuel Kant

“Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” -1 John 3:15-16 Pietà (Van Gogh)

“Hence, men who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of mankind.” -Baruch Spinoza

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” -Lyndon B. Johnson

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.” -Fred Hampton

“Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” -Mathew 12:49-50 Pietà (Bouguereau)

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.” -Mathew 12:33 The Young Shepherdess (Bouguereau)

“In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere […] in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything […] I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, & we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.”

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” -Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every man a king, so there would be no such thing as a man or woman who did not have the necessities of life, who would not be dependent upon the whims and caprices and ipse dixit of the financial martyrs for a living.” -Huey P. Long

"The kingdom of God is within you." -Luke 17:21 The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo)

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads” -Henry David Thoreau Woman with a Parasol (Monet)

“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.” -Albert Einstein Luxe, Calme et Volupté (Matisse)