"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" Quotes
A suspenseful thriller following the events of a plane crash survivor's desperate attempt to solve the mystery of a missing passenger aboard the flight numbered 644.
fiction | 566 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
The man who is enlightened and actually thinks is forced to admit that it is only the stupid, simple-minded, ignorant people in this world who believe in God.
If more could see the effect of their thriftlessness and neglect, they would begin to realize that poverty is an unnecessary evil, and that the working classes are kept in a condition of squalid misery simply and solely because their masters' profit requires it so.
I want to see a state of affairs, where our people will be ashamed of nothing we have done.
As long as we are not divided all they can do is to rob and cheat us, and they can't cheat and rob all of us all the time.
What are working men? Nothing but so many animals, driven and shepherded by the middle class crooks until we die.
It is necessary for a man to take shelter somewhere, so I took shelter where Bill Bailey told me to, and as a result I'm a Socialist.
It doesn't say much for your common sense, giving your soul for the sake of saving your pocket!
And for all they say about being free, it's really a prison, make no mistake about that.
Perhaps he had as well have starved as lived in this miserable way.
And the worst is that the struggle is becoming more intense! More bitter! More hopeless! Every year the burden of labour, burden of poverty is increasing on the workers, while the ENORMOUS profits of their masters are steadily augmenting!
