Quotes For Our Time

" Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted"
John Lennon

2." It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and low growth."
Nigel Farage.

3." We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men "
George Orwell.

4." It's an absolute disgrace.You can't bug anyone's  telephone without a warrent, which is written consent personally signed by the Home secretary.Why should you have less protection over the internet ?"
Tony Benn.

5." Official truths are powerful illusions."
John Pilger.

6." Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell.

7." Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye"
Bill Hicks.

8 " The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you.The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude you are emitting."
Abraham Hicks.

9." The major western democracies are moving towards corporation.Democracy has become a business plan with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope.
The main political parties are now devoted to the same economic policies- socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor- and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war.
This is not democracy.
It is to politics what McDonalds is to food."
John Pilger.

10. " We've bought into the idea that education is about training and' success', defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge.
We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.
A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of civilization is its compassion, not its speed and ability to consume, condemns itself to death."
Chris Hedges.