Whenever you meet someone who uses the words Keynes or Keynesian as a swear word - or as synonyms for socialist - know that their adherence to neoliberal dogma far exceeds their understanding of mainstream economics.

Ross Gittins

The billionaires in business tell the millionaires in politics that the rest of us are greedy.

Anonymous

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

Dutton wears Turnbull as a glove puppet while Abbott throws his voice.

Paul Keating

The ‘trickle-down’ theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

William Blum

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of a comfortable past, which in fact, never existed.

Robert F. Kennedy

The day after marriage equality happens, no one will be less married and no one will be more gay.

Clover Moore

The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion; it's insider trading, obscene CEO pay, wage theft from ordinary workers, Wall Street's continued gambling addiction, corporate payoffs to friendly politicians, and the billionaire takeover of our democracy.

Robert Reich

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix