Robespierre: What is the first object of society? It is to maintain the imprescriptible rights of man. What is the first of those rights? The right to life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5396
Robespierre: I defy the most scrupulous defender of property to contest these principles, short of declaring openly that he understands this word as the right to despoil and assassinate his fellows. So how have people been able to claim that any sort of restriction, or rather any regulation of the trade in wheat, was an attack on property, and disguise that barbaric system under the specious name of freedom of trade? Do the authors of this system not perceive that they are inevitably in contradiction with themselves? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5397
Robespierre: No doubt if all men were just and virtuous; if cupidity were never tempted to devour the people’s substance; if the rich, receptive to the voices of reason and nature, regarded themselves as the bursars of society, or as brothers to the poor, it might be possible to recognize no law but the most unlimited freedom; but if it is true that avarice can speculate on the misery and tyranny itself on the despair of the people; if it is true that all the passions declare war on suffering humanity, then why should not the law repress these abuses? Why should it not stay the homicidal hand of the monopolist, as it does that of the common murderer? Why should it not concern itself with the subsistence of the people, after caring so long for the pleasures of the great, and the power of despots? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5398
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Robespierre: The resources necessary to man are as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is a property common to all of society. Only the surplus is private property and is abandoned to the industry of merchants. Any mercantile speculation that I make at the cost of the life of my countrymen is not trade, but brigandage and fratricide. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5399
Robespierre: It is a gross contradiction to suppose that the constitution might preside over this new order of things; that would be to assume it had itself survived. What are the laws that replace it? Those of nature, the one which is the foundation of society itself: the salvation of the people. The right to punish the tyrant and the right to dethrone him are the same thing; both include the same forms. The tyrant’s trial is the insurrection; the verdict, the collapse of his power; the sentence, whatever the liberty of the people requires. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5400
Robespierre: Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5401
Robespierre: When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5402
Robespierre: Offences committed by people’s representatives should be severely and promptly punished. No one has the right to claim to be more inviolable than other citizens. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5403
Robespierre: Men of all countries are brothers, and the different peoples should help one another to the best of their ability, like citizens of the same state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5404
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Robespierre: Ask that merchant in human flesh what property is. He will tell you, pointing to the long coffin that he calls a ship and in which he has herded and shackled men who still appear to be alive: “Those are my property; I bought them at so much a head.” Question that nobleman, who has lands and ships or who thinks that the world has been turned upside down since he has had none, and he will give you a similar view of property. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5405
Robespierre: Citizens whose incomes do not exceed what is required for their subsistence are exempted from contributing to state expenditure; all others must support it progressively according to their wealth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5406
Robespierre: We want, in a word, to fulfil nature’s wishes, to further the destinies of humanity, to keep the promises of philosophy, to absolve providence of the long reign of crime and tyranny. So that France, once illustrious among enslaved countries, eclipsing the glory of all the free peoples that have existed, may become the model for all nations, the terror of oppressors, the consolation of the oppressed, the ornament of the universe. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5407
Robespierre: Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5408
Lenin: Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5409
Augusto Pinochet: Yesterday we were on the edge of the abyss. Today we have taken a step forward. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5410
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Lenin: And although these magnificent uprisings of the working class were crushed, there will be another uprising, which the forces of the enemies of the proletariat will prove ineffective, and from which the socialist proletariat will emerge completely victorious. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5411
Carroll Quigley: The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5412
Lenin: During periods of industrial boom, the profits of finance capital are immense, but during periods of depression, small and unsound businesses go out of existence, and the big banks acquire “holdings” in them by buying them up for a mere song, or participate in profitable schemes for their “reconstruction” and “reorganisation”. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5413
Miguel de Cervantes: Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he does more than another. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5414
Murray Rothbard: Now if a parent may own his child... then he may... give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5415
Melita Norwood: I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5416
Karl Marx: All economists share the error of examining surplus-value not as such, in its pure form, but in the particular forms of profit and rent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5417
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: A goal without a plan is just a wish. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5418
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5419
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5420
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: It seems to me that those who complain of man's progress confuse ends with means. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5421
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5422
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Man discovers himself when he measures himself against the obstacle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5423
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: And escape has never led anywhere. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5424
Derek R. Audette: Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5425
Richard Sorge: Long live the Red Army! Long live the Communist International! Long live the Soviet Communist Party! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5426
Richard Sorge: I created the impression of being a playboy, almost a wastrel, the very antithesis of a keen and dangerous spy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5427
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