John Locke on OWS

[malthaussen]

"Should either the Executive, or the Legislative, when they have got the Power in their hands, design, or go about to enslave, or destroy . The People have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no Judge on Earth, but to appeal to Heaven."

Good call, Johnny.

-- Mal

[ThomWV]

1. Everyone should read Locke's 2nd

Read Locke and you see the roots of the Democratic Party, as it should be. Read Hobbs and you get the Republicans. Locke lived about 60 years after Hobbs.

[AnnieBW]

2. I've got a better John Locke quote

"Hey, hey! Don't you walk away from me! You don't know who you're dealing with! Don't ever tell me what I can't do, ever! This is destiny. This is destiny. This is my destiny. This is -- I'm supposed to do this dammit! Don't tell me what I can't do. DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T..."

[mainstreetonce]

4. I knew

I knew what quote was coming. Love it. I'm stll LOST. I'd like to tell Rick Perry " Jesus Christ is not a weapon"

[HereSince1628]

3. Henry David Thoreau explains why Occupy

How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again. Action from principle — the perception and the performance of right — changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was

[coalition_unwilling]

6. So does Emiliano Zapata:

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

[HereSince1628]

8. ...better to die on our feet...

than to live on our knees

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[rug]

7. Marx, Wages of Labour (1844)

"Political Economy regards the proletarian ... like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle."

[malthaussen]

9. And David Hume on Congress

"The people out of doors may conclude, from the clamour they hear within, that all is not well..."
(paraphrase, done from memory.)

-- Mal