Alek Wek Quotes

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Managers can sometimes hold players back for their own benefit.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

No man ever ruled other men for their own good.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.