Francisco described people as culturally weak, and their minds full of superstition and false beliefs. Governors and local administrators were corrupt and interested only in serving their masters, suppressing the public, and in hedonistic pleasures.
He wrote:
"The land would give a plentiful, or even an extraordinary yield, if the peasants were not so cruelly and pitilessly oppressed."
"The land would give a plentiful, or even an extraordinary yield, if the peasants were not so cruelly and pitilessly oppressed."
"The rulers palaces are adorned internally with lascivious sensuality, wanton and reckless festivity, superfluous pomp, inflated pride."
"As regards the laws, they are scarcely observed at all, for the administration is absolutely autocratic."
"Be sorry for the man who has to come to judgment before these godless 'un-judges'; their eyes are bleared with greed, their mouths gape like wolves…, and their bellies hunger for the bread of the poor."
"The poor when unable to pay, would have their “wives and children sold, on the pretext of a charge of rebellion."
"I have often ventured to ask great lords what is their true object in being so eager to amass their treasures, … Their answer is worldly vanity."
"The manner of life of the rich in their great superfluity and absolute power, …and the utter subjection and poverty of the common people… and poverty so great and miserable that the life of the people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want and the dwelling-place of bitter woe."
"The land would give a plentiful, or even an extraordinary yield, if the peasants were not so cruelly and pitilessly oppressed."
"The rulers palaces are adorned internally with lascivious sensuality, wanton and reckless festivity, superfluous pomp, inflated pride."
"As regards the laws, they are scarcely observed at all, for the administration is absolutely autocratic."
"Be sorry for the man who has to come to judgment before these godless 'un-judges'; their eyes are bleared with greed, their mouths gape like wolves…, and their bellies hunger for the bread of the poor."
"The poor when unable to pay, would have their “wives and children sold, on the pretext of a charge of rebellion."
"I have often ventured to ask great lords what is their true object in being so eager to amass their treasures, … Their answer is worldly vanity."
"The manner of life of the rich in their great superfluity and absolute power, …and the utter subjection and poverty of the common people… and poverty so great and miserable that the life of the people can be depicted or accurately described only as the home of stark want and the dwelling-place of bitter woe."
