"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
"There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion."
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Source: The Governance of Britain.
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