Notably Quotable: “This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and an interdependent world order might be be built, will not be open too long…”

“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and an interdependent world order might be be built, will not be open too long — we are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

— David Rockefeller

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“You can’t change a corrupt system by taking its money.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders

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“F*ck it, let’s roll.”

— Rick Wilson, GOP strategist Rick Wilson lays out case for impeachment in hilariously profane new rant.

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“Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the Third World.”

— Henry Kissinger, 1974.

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“The list of problems getting buried by money is nearly endless.  Gun control; health care; a living wage; the high cost of education; endless war; each is rooted in the power of the oligarch’s coup, and each is a function of money in politics.”

— John Atcheson, The Plutocratic War on People: Centrists and Conservatives are Ignoring the Giant Elephant in Our National Living Room.

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“All of the movements that opened up the democratic space in America—the abolitionists, the suffragists, the labor movement, the communists, the socialists, the anarchists, and the civil rights movement—developed a critical mass and militancy that forced the centers of power to respond. The platitudes about justice, equality, and democracy are just that. Only when ruling elites become worried about survival do they react. Appealing to the better nature of the powerful is useless.” 
– Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour

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“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

― Albert Einstein