"Elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state."

 

Noam Chomsky 

 

http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/noam_chomsky_how_the_business_class_views_democracy/ 

People in need are the ambassadors of the gods.

“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum’s rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods”
   
Peter Maurin