Peter Ustinov: Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5181
Bertolt Brecht: Fascism is not the opposite of democracy but its evolution in times of crisis. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5182
Ghassan Kanafani: If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5183
Sylvia Pankhurst: Let us face the facts, comrades, the education of the masses is a large and strenuous task, but there can be no communism until the masses desire Communism and act Communism. We cannot take part in the work of education till we are ourselves deeply imbued with the Communist ideal and unless our thoughts and our desires are constantly turning towards it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5184
Mao Zedong: A well-disciplined Party armed with the theory of Marxism-Leninism, using the method of self-criticism and linked with the masses of the people; an army under the leadership of such a Party; a united front of all revolutionary classes and all revolutionary groups under the leadership of such a Party-these are the three main ,weapons with which we have defeated the enemy. Relying on them, we have won basic victory. We have travelled a tortuous road. We have struggled against opportunist deviations in our Party, ;both Right and 'Left'. Whenever we made serious mistakes on these three matters, the revolution suffered setbacks. Taught by mistakes and sebbacks, we have become wiser and handle our affairs better. It is hard for any political party or person to avoid mistakes, but we should make as few as possible. Once a mistake is made, we should correct it, and the more quickly and thoroughly the better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5185
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Edward Bernays: Goebbels (...) was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5186
Friedrich Engels: Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers -- from the mines of Siberia to California, in all parts of Europe and America -- and I make bold to say that, though he may have had many opponents, he had hardly one personal enemy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5187
Jean-Paul Sartre: The (Communist) Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5188
Jean-Paul Sartre: There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5189
Jean-Paul Sartre: I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5190
Jean-Paul Sartre: Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5191
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Jean-Paul Sartre: In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bourgeoisie of colonized subjects in a system of divide and rule; elsewhere, it has killed two birds with one stone: the colony is both settlement and exploitation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5192
Georges Brassens: The best wine is not necessarily the most expensive one, but that which we share. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5193
Enver Hoxha: At these difficult moments, when capitalism in crisis is seeking to establish its savage dictatorship, sacrifices on the part of Marxist-Leninists, the working class and progressive elements are indispensable, but every revolutionary action requires courage, intelligence and vigorous actions. There must be no retreat in the face of this situation. The just and heroic struggle of the Palestinian people for the liberation of their territories seized and occupied by Israel is a fine example. Despite the fact that it is not led by Marxist-Leninists we support it. We support it since it is a national liberation, anti-imperialist struggle. In assessing their struggle we must appreciate their bravery in coping with countless difficulties against extremely strong powers, armed to the teeth, such as the American imperialists and the Israeli Zionists. We must also bear in mind the fact that, at the same time, the Palestinians have to fight the reactionary Arab forces, too. They are left without a homeland, but they have the strength of their spirit and the strength of their arms, their courage and honest aims to have their homeland liberated, which keep them alive. They are fighting tooth and nail against the Israeli Zionists, fighting for their existence as a people and for their right to have their own homeland. It is useful for the Marxist-Leninist parties of the capitalist countries to bear in mind this wonderful experience for the organization of their struggle, to draw inspiration from the example of the resistance of this small people who, although displaced and scattered, have been able to rally their energies for a great purpose. They are fighting in the ways which the conditions of bourgeois domination have allowed them for the creation of a Palestinian state in opposition to the great forces of capitalism and imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5194
Democritus: All is lost when the bad ones serve as an example and the good ones as a mockery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5195
Otto Kuusinen: The main thing that characterises the parties of the new type is their irreconcilability to capitalism. The Communists are waging an active struggle for its abolition, for a revolutionary transformation of capitalist society, for they hold that the taking of political power by the working class and the establishment, of a dictatorship of the proletariat are essential conditions for this transformation. Hence the intolerance displayed by Communists for all forms of opportunism, which in practice signifies adaptation to capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5196
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Umberto Eco: A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5197
Umberto Eco: Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5198
Umberto Eco: Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5199
Umberto Eco: Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5200
Umberto Eco: A philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5201
Umberto Eco: A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions. World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions, if not in order to criticize them and to show their inconsistency. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5202
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Umberto Eco: What is a symbol? Etymologically speaking, the word σύμβολον comes from σνμβάλλω, to throw-with, to make something coincide with something else: a symbol was originally an identification mark made up of two halves of a coin or of a medal. Two halves of the same thing, either one standing for the other, both becoming, however, fully effective only when they matched to make up, again, the original whole. … in the original concept of symbol, there is the suggestion of a final recomposition. Etymologies, however, do not necessarily tell the truth — or, at least, they tell the truth, in terms of historical, not of structural, semantics. What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5203
General Douglas MacArthur: Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5204
Simone de Beauvoir: The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5205
Hannah Arendt: Freedom of expression is a farce if the information about the facts is not guaranteed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5206
Don Marquis: Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5207
Kim Il Sung: So long as imperialism exists on the globe and oppresses and plunders the people, the people cannot leave off the anti-imperialist struggle even a moment. The struggle must continue till all shades of colonialism are wiped off the face of the earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5208
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Sydney J. Harris: The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5209
Ernst Thälmann: We do not say, choose Thälmann, then you have bread and freedom , we say, for bread and freedom you must fight! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5210
Ernst Thälmann: My people, to whom I belong, and whom I love, are the German people, and my nation, which I worship with great pride, is the German nation, a knightly, proud and hard nation Flesh of the flesh of the German workers, and therefore, as their revolutionary child, have later become their revolutionary leader. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5211
Ernst Thälmann: One finger is easy to break, but five fingers are a fist! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5212
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Aimé Césaire: It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5213
Marcus Aurelius: Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5214