“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Quotes by Scott Nearing
“Anything that squarely challenges The American Way or western civilization is suspect. After the War of 1914-1918, censorship, secret police and ‘voluntary discipline in the public interest’ took over. Step by step, year by year, war by war, the interests of big business were synchronized with the public interests until big business made the policy decisions which determined what was good for the people to hear, see and read – therefore good for the best interests of the United States Oligarchy and the American Empire.”
“War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.”
Scott NearingScott Nearing was an influential American radical economist, educator, and political activist known for his commitment to pacifism, vegetarianism, and simple living. Born in 1883, Nearing's progressiv...