Adam Smith: To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers…The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4981
Lenin: Proudhon had a natural inclination for dialectics. But as he never grasped really scientific dialectics he never got further than sophistry. This is in fact connected with his petty-bourgeois point of view. Like the historian Raumer, the petty bourgeois is made up of on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand. This is so in his economic interests and therefore in his politics, religious, scientific and artistic views. And likewise in his morals, IN EVERYTHING. He is a living contradiction. If, like Proudhon, he is in addition an ingenious man, he will soon learn to play with his own contradictions and develop them according to circumstances into striking, ostentatious, now scandalous now brilliant paradoxes. Charlatanism in science and accommodation in politics are inseparable from such a point of view. There remains only one governing motive, the vanity of the subject, and the only question for him, as for all vain people, is the success of the moment, the éclat of the day. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4982
Byung-Chul Han: People who fail in the neoliberal achievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system. Herein lies the particular intelligence defining the neoliberal regime: no resistance to the system can emerge in the first place. In contrast, when allo-exploitation prevails, the exploited are still able to show solidarity and unite against those who exploit them. Such is the logic on which Marx’s idea of a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is based. However, this vision presupposes that relations of repression and domination hold. Now, under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4983
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Byung-Chul Han: The complaint of the depressive individual, “Nothing is possible,” can only occur in a society that thinks, “Nothing is impossible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4984
Byung-Chul Han: Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today’s voters have no real interest in politics –in actively shaping the community. They possess neither the will nor the ability to participate in communal, political action. They react only passively to politics: grumbling and complaining, as consumers do about a commodity or service they do not like. Politicians and parties follow this logic of consumption too. They have to ‘deliver’. In the process, they become nothing more than suppliers; their task is to satisfy voters who are consumers or customers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4985
Lenin: The workers' resistance springs from their very conditions of life-the sale of labour-power. Only as a result of this resistance, despite the tremendous sacrifices the workers have to make in the struggle, are they able to maintain anything like a tolerable standard of living. But capital is becoming more and more concentrated, manufacturers' associations are growing, the number of destitute and unemployed people is increasing, and so also is want among the proletariat; consequently, it is becoming harder than ever to fight for a decent standard of living. The cost of living, which has been rising rapidly in recent years, often nullifies all the workers' efforts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4986
Pier Paolo Pasolini: I have always been astonished and even, to tell the truth, deeply indignant at the clerical interpretation of Christ’s phrase: Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what belongs to God: an interpretation in which is concentrated all of the hypocrisy and the aberration that characterised the Church of the Counter-Reformation. It passed off – however monstrous it may seem – as moderate, cynical, and realistic a statement by Christ which was clearly radical, extremist, and perfectly religious. In fact, Christ could in no way mean to say: please everyone, do not worry about politics, reconcile the advantages of social life with the absolute character of religious life, care for the goat and the cabbage, etc. . (…) By posing this extremist dichotomy, Christ pushes and invites an eternal opposition to Caesar, even if it must be non-violent (unlike that of the zealots). https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4987
Franz Kafka: Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4988
John Dewey: Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4989
Trịnh Thị Ngọ: Your rich leaders grow richer while you die in the swamp. Imperialists make you fight this war. Your government has betrayed you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4990
Pancho Villa: My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4991
Ibrahim Traoré: We will break every tie that kept us in slavery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4992
Friedrich Engels: The entire capital of our bankers, merchants, manufacturers and large landowners is nothing but the accumulated and unpaid labor of the working class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4993
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Buzz Aldrin: From space it has an almost benign quality. Intellectually one could realise there were wars underway, but emotionally it was impossible to understand such things. The thought reoccurred that wars are generally fought for territory or are disputes over borders; from space the arbitrary borders established on Earth cannot be seen. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4994
George Orwell: That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4995
Babatunde Olatunji: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4996
Sandra Carey: Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4997
Mark Twain: There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4998
Federico Garcia Lorca: In the fields where shadows grow tall, voices rise, answering the call. For the dreamers, the lost, the brave, we sing for freedom, our hearts enslaved. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4999
Federico Garcia Lorca: We don’t just live off bread. If I were hungry and helpless out on the streets, I wouldn’t ask for a loaf of bread. Instead, I’d ask for half a loaf and a book (…) All people should eat, but all should learn (…) because otherwise, they’ll be turned into machines. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5000
Federico Garcia Lorca: Culture because only through it can be solved the problems in which the people are debated today full of faith, but lacking light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5001
Federico Garcia Lorca: The most terrible of feelings is the feeling of having lost hope. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5002
Suetonius: Caesar overtook his advanced guard at the river Rubicon, which formed the frontier between Gaul and Italy. Well aware how critical a decision confronted him, he turned to his staff, remarking: "We may still draw back but, once across that little bridge, we shall have to fight it out. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5003
Suetonius: Caesar exclaimed: "Let us accept this as a sign from the Gods, and follow where they beckon, in vengeance on our double-dealing enemies. The die is cast. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5004
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Suetonius: Twenty-three dagger thrusts went home as he stood there. Caesar did not utter a sound after Casca's blow had drawn a groan from him; though some say that when he saw Marcus Brutus about to deliver the second blow, he reproached him in Greek with: "You, too, my child? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5005
Suetonius: He answered some governors who had written to recommend an increase in the burden of provincial taxation, with: "A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5006
Suetonius: In a free state, both the tongue and the mind ought to be free. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5007
Suetonius: Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5008
Stalin: Such is the law of the exploiters — to beat the backward and the weak. It is the jungle law of capitalism. You are backward, you are weak — therefore you are wrong; hence you can be beaten and enslaved. You are mighty — therefore you are right; hence we must be wary of you. That is why we must no longer lag behind. In the past we had no fatherland, nor could we have had one. But now that we have overthrown capitalism and power is in our hands, in the hands of the people, we have a fatherland, and we will uphold its independence. Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence? If you do not want this, you must put an end to its backwardness in the shortest possible time and develop a genuine Bolshevik tempo in building up its socialist economy. There is no other way. That is why Lenin said on the eve of the October Revolution: "Either perish, or overtake and outstrip the advanced capitalist countries." We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5009
Galileo Galilei: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5010
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Roy T. Bennett: The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5011
Zapata: I want to die as a slave to principles, not to men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5012
Andrew Carnegie: I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium.... Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5013
Lord Acton: I was struck in reading Karl Marx's new work by the extent to which he fetches his materials from England. It is a remarkable book, as the Koran of the new socialists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5014
Lord Acton: At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5015
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