Waylon Jennings Quotes

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

I resent any secret plan that I'm not a part of.

By us, and not for us

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Why do you all push us around?

Power is always a corrupting influence.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

It all boils down to power and money.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

A wild Indian, to reach the civilized world, must needs travel some thousands of miles in vehicles of conveyance, to which he is unaccustomed -- through latitudes and longitudes which are new to him -- living on food that he is unused to -- stared and gazed at by the thousands and tens of thousands whom he cannot talk to -- his heart grieving and his body sickening at the exhibition of white men's wealth and luxuries, which are enjoyed on the land, and over the bones of his ancestors. And at the end of his journey he stands (like a caged animal) to be scanned -- to be criticized -- to be pitied -- and heralded to the world as a mute -- as a brute, and a beggar.

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

People who are divided are easier to control.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a way that doesn't make me feel comfortable, or they try to manipulate me into being a caricature of myself.