Jonathon Moore

“There’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more.”
― –The Smiths, “Handsome Devil”

“We live in a two-tiered legal system, one where poor people are harassed, arrested, and jailed for absurd infractions, such as selling loose cigarettes—which led to Eric Garner being choked to death by the New York City police in 2014—while crimes of appalling magnitude by the oligarchs and corporations, from oil spills to bank fraud in the hundreds of billions of dollars, which wiped out 40 percent of the world’s wealth,41 are dealt with through tepid administrative controls, symbolic fines, and civil enforcement that give these wealthy perpetrators immunity from criminal prosecution.”
― Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour

“We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.”
― Bertram M. Gross, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

“The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.”
― Albert Einstein